OpenStack's growth has been driven by its adoption in the Asia-Pacific region, with South Korean cloud provider Okestro becoming its newest Platinum Member. Europe, with its strong data sovereignty laws, has also been a growth market. OpenStack's latest release also marks the first since it moved to its 'Skip Level Upgrade Release Process' (SLURP) a year ago, which introduces a long-term release version on an annual basis.
Key takeaways:
- The OpenInfra Foundation has launched version 29 of OpenStack, a tool that allows enterprises to manage their own private clouds on-premises.
- The new release, named 'Caracal', focuses on features for hosting AI and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads.
- OpenStack's growth has been driven by its adoption in the Asia-Pacific region and Europe, with a focus on AI and strong data sovereignty laws respectively.
- The latest release includes new features such as the ability to support vGPU live migrations in Nova, OpenStack’s core compute service, and a number of security enhancements.