Open Infrastructure Foundation is an entity supporting open source development in IT infrastructure globally.
For almost a decade, the governing body of OpenStack and related projects was the OpenStack Foundation. Recently, at the Open Infrastructure Summit 2020, the foundation announced that it has evolved into the Open Infrastructure Foundation.
This move is part of the multi-year drive of community evolution and expansion into including newer projects under the foundation’s wing.
In this context, let’s take a look at the timeline that led to this evolution.
The origin of OpenStack, and later the foundation, can be traced back to something that happened in a true open source fashion – a collaboration.
Rackspace was rewriting the infrastructure code (what was later known as Swift) to its cloud offerings. They decided to make the existing code open source. Simultaneously, through its contractor Anso Labs, NASA did the same with the Python-based cloud fabric controller Nova.
The teams realized that both the projects are complementary and decided to collaborate. This shared program marked the beginning of OpenStack.
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