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OpenInfra Foundation talks about Directed Funding model for open source projects

Notes rise of 'pay to play' where companies try to buy way into governance – and says this is not that

Richard Speed Tue 14 Jun 2022 // 08:30 UTC

OpenInfra Berlin OpenInfra still has ideas to share, including an intriguing funding model for open source projects the Foundation discussed at its in-person event last week in Berlin.
The "Directed Funding" initiative – a significant change to how some projects might be funded in the future – is about allowing organizations to fund a specific project rather than seeing their cash spread across projects for which they have no interest.
Jonathan Bryce, CEO and executive director of the OpenInfra Foundation, told The Register this wasn't a case of following a trend in the open-source world that he described as "this kind of pay to play-type scenario."

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Tencent completes 50 million core migration of its own apps to its own clouds

Pockets plenty of savings and illustrates success with the cutest cartoon sysadmin ever

Simon Sharwood, APAC Editor Fri 17 Jun 2022 // 04:15 UTC

Chinese web giant Tencent has revealed it’s completed a massive migration of its own apps to its own cloud.
The company started thinking about this in 2018 after realising that its many services had each built their own technology silos.
Plenty of those services – among them WeChat, social network, qq.com, games like Honour of Kings and YouTube-like Tencent Video – have tens or hundreds of millions of users. Each service appears to have built infrastructure to cope with peak traffic requirements, leaving plenty of unused capacity across Tencent’s operations.

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China’s GitHub clone makes all repos private pending mysterious ‘review’

Gitee apologises but won't explain why this is happening

Simon Sharwood, APAC Editor Fri 20 May 2022 // 06:55 UTC

China’s approved GitHub clone, Gitee, has warned users that it will make all existing repositories private pending a mysterious review of their content.
Gitee offers Git and Apache Subversion as a service. But while GitHub has occasionally been banned in China, Gitee was anointed as China’s designated open source development hub in 2020, after the nation’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology conducted a bidding process.
The Reg keeps an eye on Gitee and sees a steady stream of blog posts about product and service updates, plus news of open source software in China. The service is sufficiently committed to the cause of open source to have signed up to mirror Linux Foundation code and is thought to have around eight million users.

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Rackspace considers selling part of business: 'Everything' on the table

CEO points to two very different multi-cloud markets, says it's already spoken to potential buyer

Dan Robinson Thu 12 May 2022 // 14:33 UTC

Rackspace Technology is considering selling off at least part of its business following a strategic review, with CEO Kevin Jones admitting that "everything is on the table."
The company disclosed it has already received interest from a potential buyer.
The move was announced during a conference call covering Rackspace's Q1 2022 earnings, where Jones claimed that Rackspace is well positioned as a pure play multi-cloud services company.

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Canonical: OpenStack is dead, long live OpenStack

It might not be trendy anymore, but apparently it keeps on selling

Liam Proven in Prague Mon 14 Mar 2022 // 10:30 UTC

In a slightly curious blog post, Ubuntu recently dismissed the idea that OpenStack was no longer relevant and had been "abandoned" – making it the second outfit in the past six months to state how confident it remains in the IaaS platform.
The post, titled "OpenStack is dead?" echoed a similar statement from Docker Enterprise owners Mirantis, stating that users now "probably think that OpenStack has been supplanted by Kubernetes" – and talking about the growth in OpenStack adoption.
When multiple companies strenuously deny something, it tends to cause more suspicion than it allays. As The Reg pointed out when OpenStack turned 10, several big players have killed off their OpenStack products. Cisco invested heavily in it in 2014, only to then ax it a couple of years later.

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OpenStack Yoga stretches to support DPUs, more storage

Open Infrastructure Foundation boasts of growth, but observers note this is mostly existing users scaling up

Dan Robinson Wed 30 Mar 2022 // 17:30 UTC

OpenStack's 25th release brings the usual crop of new features to the open-source cloud platform, including support for DPUs, better integration with Prometheus and Kubernetes, and a handy un-delete feature for file system shares.
Available today, Yoga marks 12 years of development of the OpenStack framework, and while it may not have lived up to the early hype, the Open Infrastructure Foundation (OIF) was keen to talk up its success.
OpenStack now accounts for about 25 million CPU cores in production, OIF claims, up from the 15 million reported just last year. There have also been more than 100 new clouds added, with OpenStack used at more than 180 public cloud datacenters and in nine out of 10 telcos, according to the Open Infrastructure Foundation.

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OpenStack-to-the-edge darling StarlingX hits 6.0, makes useful config tweaks

Open-source, full-stack edge and industrial IoT software moves to Linux kernel 5.10

Dan Robinson Thu 3 Feb 2022 // 15:10 UTC

StarlingX, an open-source platform for edge computing based on OpenStack, has hit release 6.0 with a Linux Kernel upgrade plus security and deployment enhancements to make it easier to manage systems.
The StarlingX project offers a complete software stack for edge and IoT deployments, with support for code running in containers or virtual machines. It was started by Intel and Wind River, but is now an independent project supported by the Open Infrastructure Foundation, with code available under the Apache 2 licence.
Companies using StarlingX in production systems include T-Systems, Verizon and Vodafone, with the code freely available to download from the StarlingX website.

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Open Infrastructure Foundation adopts cross-cloud resource manager Taibai

China-based FiberHome donated code after consultation – didn't just "throw it over the wall"

Simon Sharwood, APAC Editor Thu 18 Nov 2021 // 01:58 UTC

The Open Infrastructure Foundation, home to OpenStack, has a new project: an open source multi-cloud management platform called Taibai.
Code for the project was donated by FiberHome – a Platinum member of the Foundation that operates in China, offering information and communication network products and associated services.
The tool allows authentication across multiple clouds, tracks resources both on-prem and in the cloud, and can manage VMs in both locations. Today the tool can work with OpenStack, AWS, and Alibaba Cloud, and has lesser capacities driving VMware clouds.

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OVHcloud to share its OpenStack automation for use in on-prem clouds

Also finds a way to bring its water-cooled servers to third-party bit barns, especially in Asia

Simon Sharwood, APAC Editor Wed 17 Nov 2021 // 06:07 UTC

Cloudy contender OVHcloud will share the automation tools it developed to run its own OpenStack-based cloud, as part of a plan to grow its managed cloud business.
In Europe, the recently floated French company has offered to operate and manage a private cloud using its tech on customers' premises. Now OVH plans to let others do the same. The plan is that managed services providers or end-user organisations could choose to use OVH's tools to run their own OpenStack rigs, or take up OVH's offer of managed on-prem cloud.
OVH will happily deploy those on-prem clouds at scales ranging from a couple of cabinets to hundreds of racks, with the latter scale directed at carriers and other large users.

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As UK-based Civo's Kubernetes service goes live, boss claims the big cloud rivals are overpriced

'There's a misconception in the industry that hyperscalers are cheap'

Tim Anderson Thu 14 Oct 2021 // 10:01 UTC

Interview Civo, a cloud provider based in Hertfordshire, has made its flavour of K3s Kubernetes generally available, with the claim that a usable cluster can be fired up in 90 seconds.
K3s is a lightweight Kubernetes distribution from SUSE's Rancher, which claims to be "easy to install, half the memory, all in a binary of less than 100 MB."
Civo is among the smallest of Cloud Native Computing Foundation Certified Kubernetes providers and picked K3s for its speed and efficiency.

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