OpenStack Foundation Transforms Into the Open Infrastructure Foundation

An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: The writing was on the wall two years ago. The OpenStack Foundation was going to cover more than just the OpenStack Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud. Today, that metamorphosis is complete. The Foundation now covers a wide variety of open-source cloud and container technologies as the Open Infrastructure Foundation. Why so long? COO Mark Collier said, “They wanted to be sure they did this right.” One reason for this was to make sure they could differentiate their group from The Linux Foundation’s Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), which covers much of the same ground. The Open Infrastructure Foundation executive director Jonathan Bryce said that, “OpenStack is still one of the top three most active open source projects in the world. It’s just the landscape of infrastructure and there are many new exciting trends with open becoming more and more ubiquitous.” To make use of all these different ways the cloud has evolved requires new software programs and that’s where the Open Infrastructure Foundation comes in. The new Foundation’s mission is to establish new open-source communities to help bring into production new emerging use cases. This includes AI/ML; CI/CD; container infrastructure; edge computing; 5G; and public, private and hybrid clouds.