After more than a decade as an independent open-source foundation, the OpenStack project is joining the Linux Foundation in a move aimed at accelerating collaboration across the open infrastructure ecosystem.
Fifteen years ago, Rackspace got together with NASA and created the open-source OpenStack project. Over the next two years, as OpenStack’s technology and user base grew, there were many discussions among participants about moving the technology to an open-source foundation. One of the leading options was to join the Linux Foundation, but that didn’t happen. Instead, in 2012, the OpenStack Foundation was created, which changed its name to the Open Infrastructure (OpenInfra) Foundation in 2020.