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July 15, 2026

Mayflower: A Hybrid Private Cloud as an AI Factory

Mayflower is one of the largest online platforms in its market, serving more than 500 000 000 monthly active users. The platform attracts a massive and highly engaged audience. Creating a highly interactive environment where thousands of real-time actions happen simultaneously.

Kendall Nelson
July 13, 2026

How India’s Payment Backbone Runs on Open Source

NCPI’s open infrastructure approach enables a fast, reliable, and low-cost payment system, built without vendor lock-in and at a scale most enterprises never approach.

Allison Price
June 29, 2026

Been There, Gated That: What AI Builders Can Learn From a Decade of Open Source CI

Built to manage the explosive growth of open source contributions, Zuul’s project gating model is proving equally effective for AI-generated code.

Clark Boylan
June 28, 2026

When OpenStack Meets Governments: How Pinaka ZTi Builds Sovereign Clouds Governments Can Actually Trust

How India’s Pinaka ZTi distribution demonstrates how hardened, validated OpenStack can deliver sovereign, government-grade cloud infrastructure by bridging the gap between upstream open source and production-ready enterprise deployments.

Ajith Narayanan
April 16, 2026

High Performance OpenStack: When Vietnam’s Cloud Infrastructure Is No Longer the Bottleneck

This article shows how a re-architected OpenStack data plane enables near–bare metal performance, proving cloud infrastructure is no longer the bottleneck for high-throughput, low-latency workloads.

Sang Tran Quoc
April 16, 2026

The KInIT Case Study: Sovereign AI Cloud

KInIT (Kempelen Institute of Intelligent Technologies) is an independent research institute focused on advancing artificial intelligence through a combination of cutting-edge research and real-world impact. Together with dNation they built high-performance Sovereign AI Cloud.
Martin Pilka
Martin Tamajka
April 13, 2026

Keeping Sovereignty on Track: How France’s National Railway Runs on Open Source

At KubeCon CloudNativeCon Europe, SNCF demonstrated how combining Kubernetes and OpenStack enables large-scale, sovereign cloud infrastructure, balancing public cloud flexibility with on-prem control to support critical national operations.

Allison Price
April 9, 2026

The Anti-Monopoly Architecture: Why Digital Sovereignty Depends on Invisible Labor

OpenStack’s long-term success as a sovereign, open cloud platform depends not just on its technology but on recognizing and sustaining the often overlooked “invisible labor” of contributors whose maintenance work is critical to the health and resilience of the community.

Goutham Pacha Ravi
April 7, 2026

Ongoing Development and Next Steps for DOCOMO and Tacker

Learn how DOCOMO is now developing and deploying container-based VNF as vRAN and 5GC
Yuya Kuno
Yasafumi Ogawa
April 6, 2026

Why AI Agents Need Stronger Sandboxing and What the Kata Containers Community Is Doing About It

Engineers from Ant Group, Google, and NVIDIA discuss why Kata Containers is emerging as a critical building block for AI platforms built on Kubernetes.

Kendall Nelson

Mayflower: A Hybrid Private Cloud as an AI Factory

How India’s Payment Backbone Runs on Open Source

Been There, Gated That: What AI Builders Can Learn From a Decade of Open Source CI

When OpenStack Meets Governments: How Pinaka ZTi Builds Sovereign Clouds Governments Can Actually Trust

High Performance OpenStack: When Vietnam’s Cloud Infrastructure Is No Longer the Bottleneck

The KInIT Case Study: Sovereign AI Cloud

Keeping Sovereignty on Track: How France’s National Railway Runs on Open Source

The Anti-Monopoly Architecture: Why Digital Sovereignty Depends on Invisible Labor

Ongoing Development and Next Steps for DOCOMO and Tacker

Why AI Agents Need Stronger Sandboxing and What the Kata Containers Community Is Doing About It

OpenStack Delivers Efficiency, Cost Savings for Powering AI Workloads

Why OpenStack Is Still Walmart’s Private Cloud of Choice — 1 Million+ Cores Later

Using Kata Containers as a Container Runtime in OpenStack Zun

Software Deployment Options in OpenStack: A Quick Guide

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Mayflower: A Hybrid Private Cloud as an AI Factory

How India’s Payment Backbone Runs on Open Source

Been There, Gated That: What AI Builders Can Learn From a Decade of Open Source CI

When OpenStack Meets Governments: How Pinaka ZTi Builds Sovereign Clouds Governments Can Actually Trust

High Performance OpenStack: When Vietnam’s Cloud Infrastructure Is No Longer the Bottleneck

The KInIT Case Study: Sovereign AI Cloud

Keeping Sovereignty on Track: How France’s National Railway Runs on Open Source

The Anti-Monopoly Architecture: Why Digital Sovereignty Depends on Invisible Labor

Ongoing Development and Next Steps for DOCOMO and Tacker

Why AI Agents Need Stronger Sandboxing and What the Kata Containers Community Is Doing About It

OpenStack Delivers Efficiency, Cost Savings for Powering AI Workloads

Why OpenStack Is Still Walmart’s Private Cloud of Choice — 1 Million+ Cores Later

Using Kata Containers as a Container Runtime in OpenStack Zun

Software Deployment Options in OpenStack: A Quick Guide

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