The OpenInfra Foundation actively promotes the development and application of open source projects in the Chinese market

Foundation Platinum Member-Ant Group, FiberHome, Huawei, Red Hat and Tencent provide technical support for emerging use cases in multiple fields such as artificial intelligence, 5G and edge computing

June 2, 2021-The OpenInfra Foundation (Open Source Infrastructure Foundation) and platinum members held a press conference in a combination of online and offline methods, sharing the latest developments of the various communities of the OpenInfra Foundation, and community members’ comments on related issues. Wide application of technology.

The foundation has always been close to actual production applications, committed to creating an open source community that can efficiently develop high-quality software, and promoting the application and development of open source technologies in fields such as artificial intelligence, 5G, and edge computing. At present, the OpenInfra Foundation has more than 110,000 community members in 187 countries/regions. The hosted open source projects include Airship, Kata Containers, OpenInfra Labs, OpenStack, StarlingX and Zuul, and work with more than 60 organizations/institutions to face new issues in technological development. Challenges such as diversification of hardware, diversification of deployment methods, government regulation (data sovereignty), and the availability of open source software will jointly promote the development of open source infrastructure in the next decade.

The latest news from the OpenInfra Foundation:

 2021 OpenInfra activity strategy: The OpenInfra Foundation has launched the "OpenInfra Live" online live program, which focuses on specific topics (such as the development of OpenStack, Kata Containers, Magma and other projects, integration with Kubernetes, Ceph and other projects, industry leaders) Interviews, upstream development and project roadmap updates, etc.) regularly share and exchange online, and push the video review of each program on the WeChat official account of the OpenInfra Foundation.
 Red Hat provided a total of US$551.9 million (including funding and software subscription services) in funding for the first study of the OpenInfra Labs cloud network, aiming to promote the implementation and application of open source software in production practices. Organizations participating in the OpenInfra Labs project will act as technology initiators to promote related cloud services and network deployment technologies to other regions in a reproducible manner, and unite these regions to further expand beyond academia.

OpenInfra project update:

OpenStack is one of the three most active open source projects in the world (including Linux Kernel and Chromium). It has been updated to the 23rd version of Wallaby. 17,000 code modifications submitted by more than 800 contributions from 140 different organizations/institutions have been successfully merged Up to this version, the priorities of community development work include cross-project integration with open source projects such as Kubernetes, Ceph, Prometheus, and improving software security. The overall deployment scale of OpenStack software has reached 15 million computing cores and is still growing. Users include Chinese companies such as China Mobile, Baidu and China UnionPay, as well as Walmart, Blizzard Entertainment, European Nuclear Research Organization, General Electric and Verizon.

Airship (a series of declarative automated cloud configuration open source tools for interactive operations) officially released the latest version 2.0 in April this year. This version improves file management functions, optimizes the software upgrade process through integrated cloud native tools, and optimizes operation and maintenance. People can use the same set of workflows to manage workloads running on bare metal and public clouds. The above improvements speed up the deployment process, optimize the control panel, and improve security performance. Users can also use Airship to deploy native Kubernetes resources. The declarative model of Airship 2.0 can guarantee the predictability, repeatability and flexibility of cross-site operation and maintenance and upgrades. AT&T has applied Airship on a large scale in actual production. Its 5G network is deployed and managed through Airship. It runs on a 100% containerized OpenStack private cloud platform, and uses Airship to quickly replicate its 5G infrastructure in dozens of regions. The architecture also supports the AT&T network and the packet core evolution of the VNF team, allowing flexible mobile sessions.

StarlingX (an open source cloud platform optimized for low latency and high performance for edge computing and IoT applications) has released the latest version 5.0. StarlingX integrates Ceph, OpenStack, Kebernetes and other technologies to create a fully functional cloud software stack, providing operators and enterprises with all the components needed to deploy edge clouds on a few or hundreds of servers. T-Systems and Verizon use StarlingX for edge and vRAN production practices, and more and more organizations/institutions are evaluating StarlingX software for production deployment.

Zuul plans to release the v5 version this year. Recent software optimizations include support for circular dependencies, improved support for Windows working nodes, serial pipeline management for CD workloads, and the BMW, Volvo Cars and OpenStack communities have used Zuul in production practices.

Kata Containers officially released version 2.0 in October last year. Kata Containers can provide containerized workload isolation, and its security is equivalent to that of virtual machines, but it does not need to bear the performance burden similar to virtual machines. Whether it is a workload that requires strict supervision or untrusted code, it can provide users with one A set of fast and secure deployment solutions, suitable for public cloud, private cloud, container, edge computing and other fields. Ant Group runs Kata Containers on thousands of computing nodes and more than 10,000 CPU cores, and has laid the foundation for its financial-grade infrastructure architecture.

Message from OpenInfra Foundation and Platinum Members

Mark Collier, Chief Operating Officer of the OpenInfra Foundation, said: "Since the establishment of the OpenStack project, the open source field has grown rapidly over the past ten years. Today, nearly 99% of companies run open source software in their code bases. Looking ahead to infrastructure development In the next ten years, we will always adhere to open source and adopt a community-driven software development model to achieve our goals. I am very happy to collaborate with platinum members such as Ant Group, Fiberhome, Huawei, Red Hat, Tencent and many other community members. Promote the development of open source infrastructure projects."

Ant Group

Ant Group has always focused on two aspects: collaboration and standardized solutions. Maintaining close cooperation with the community can maximize the benefits of open source infrastructure. Our strategy is based on the fundamental problems of the industry, and solve the long-term challenges faced by the industry by creating and supporting the development of open source projects. The various projects of the OpenInfra Foundation can pass Collaboration to achieve seamless integration and deployment of infrastructure software is very important to us.

In addition, Ant Group continues to seek cooperation opportunities with other OpenInfra projects in order to jointly build common solutions. For example, we apply Kata Containers, an open source infrastructure project, to commercial solutions and provide related services through Alibaba Cloud. Many of our customers also need to use private cloud solutions. Thanks to the advantages of Kata Containers interoperating with other OpenInfra projects, customers can independently choose the best technical solution to meet their unique business needs.

Kata Containers is our most important OpenInfra project, and is deployed in large numbers in Ant's internal and external customer systems, mainly to solve key issues in resource and security isolation. Within the Ant Group, in order to solve security and scalability issues and ensure the overall stability of the company’s business, Kata Containers has been deployed on the largest scale and helped the company successfully cope with the challenges of traffic peaks, especially during the "Double Eleven" and " Business peak periods such as Double Twelve. Externally, Kata Containers has been embedded in the overall solution of Alibaba Cloud's business. This technology can be used as a part of high-quality public and private cloud solutions to help our important customers solve the challenges they face.

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Fiberhome started the research on cloud computing technology in 2010, and in 2013 selected OpenStack as the core supporting technology of Fiberhome Cloud Platform, and released the FitCloud cloud-network integration strategy in 2015. The core product FitOS in the FitCloud product system of FiberHome is based on many projects in the open source community. With the development of FitOS products, FiberHome is also constantly introducing new community projects. Currently, Fiberhome has hundreds of developers participating in community contributions, focusing on the OpenStack open source project and StarlingX edge computing project, undertaking the PTL work of the open source Zaqar project, and ranking top three in the world in cumulative contributions in the StarlingX project.

Cloud computing is an important information infrastructure in the "new infrastructure" policy, and it is also the basic support for the development of digital economy and smart cities. Most of the large government and enterprise customers served by Fiberhome are faced with the problems of scattered cloud resource construction, numerous service providers, different service levels, and lack of unified standards and planning. Therefore, there is an urgent need to build a unified distributed multi-cloud management platform to achieve overall planning and construction, unified management and scheduling, and unified operation services, improve the level of cloud service capabilities, promote the collaborative sharing of information, and improve the efficiency of resource use. Based on open source technology, Fiberhome creates a safe and controllable "TravelSky Cloud" for TravelSky, which internally supports TravelSky's comprehensive cloud services, and externally provides proprietary cloud services for specific industries and government agencies, which can fully realize T+0/T+ 1 resource delivery, supporting a system management scale of more than 250,000, reducing system operation and maintenance costs in an all-round way, and achieving full docking with multiple public clouds, enabling TravelSky's global business to coordinate the layout and meet the requirements of nearby deployment and delivery. In the future, Fiberhome has plans to contribute to the foundation of the multi-cloud management platform project, actively cooperate in the community, and attract more partners to participate in community contributions with us.

Huawei

Huawei adheres to open cooperation and innovation, embraces globalization and open source, promotes key technological innovation, aggregates, co-constructs, and shares the elements of the entire industry, and works with industry and ecological partners in various industries and fields to jointly promote the healthy development of the ICT industry. In the field of telecom cloud, Huawei believes that the telecom cloud is the base of the telecom network, enabling thousands of industries to provide a highly reliable, high-performance and agile cloud base that is closely integrated with services and supports the smooth evolution and openness of microservices/container technologies. . Huawei's NFVI solution provides an integrated platform, relying on Huawei FusionSphere enhanced by OpenStack to build an open, agile, and reliable cloud operating system to build telecom cloud solutions.
 
The OIF project provides strong community support for Huawei’s telecom cloud solutions. It provides diversified computing power support for Huawei’s products from an open source perspective. Hardware support provides continuous evolutionary innovation. Huawei actively participates in community contributions and actively synchronizes. The latest version of the community. Huawei is a platinum member of the OIF community, initiated the VPN project, and assumed a key role in Neutron, and is one of the top 10 code contributors to OpenStack. The community's number one telecommunications manufacturer. In the OpenStack project, we focus on the three core projects of Nova, Neutron, and Cinder, and continue to promote the development and evolution of OpenStack in the telecom cloud field.

As of Q1 of 2021, Huawei's cloud core network has signed a total of more than 900 telecom cloud network element commercial contracts, and the number of DCs has exceeded 500. Open infrastructure is widely used in the field of telecom cloud and the latest edge computing. We believe that in the future, there will be more application scenarios and cases that will be influenced by OpenInfra to enable the digital transformation of the industry and achieve commercial success.

Red Hat

Red Hat continues to adhere to and practice the open hybrid cloud strategy. Open infrastructure is an important part of the open hybrid cloud, and Red Hat will invest in it for a long time. For OpenStack, the core project of OpenInfra foundation, Red Hat has built an enterprise-level product RHOSP (Red Hat OpenStack Platform) for it and maintains and updates it for a long time. Red Hat has a large number of private cloud project cases based on OpenInfra's core project OpenStack, covering various industries such as telecommunications and finance.

Tencent TStack

We use open source infrastructure technology to develop Tencent's enterprise-level IaaS product TStack to provide technical support for customers in multiple industries. Tencent's IaaS products can meet the business needs of most customers by taking advantage of the stability and compatibility of the open source infrastructure. We attach great importance to the open source project of the OpenInfra Foundation and actively participate in related activities of the foundation. We are very happy to communicate with many technical experts, business partners and potential customers, fully understand customer needs, improve and update product functions in time, and continue to meet Business needs of existing and new customers.

The TStack series of products are based on the OpenStack technology framework, and their main application areas include cloud-enhanced data centers or new IT projects based on cloud computing. Tencent can provide comprehensive cloud solutions that integrate IaaS, PaaS and SaaS. In common cloud computing deployment cases, we usually use TStack as the infrastructure to provide unified computing, storage, and network resource pool management services, and run other products on the underlying architecture. TStack can be used as a standalone software version or as an HCI solution for deployment.

About OpenInfra Days China 2021

The OpenInfra Foundation supports more than 110,000 community members in 187 countries around the world to participate in the development and application of open source infrastructure by hosting open source projects and community practices. There are many members in the global open source infrastructure ecosystem. The foundation provides as many opportunities for technical exchange and sharing as possible. In addition to global summits and OpenDev activities, there are also project team gatherings (PTG), OpenInfra Days, and hackers. Pine (Hackathon) and other regional activities.

In view of the unique open source infrastructure ecology of different regions/markets, the annual OpenInfra Days always attracts attention. This year’s OpenInfra Days China is jointly organized by the OpenInfra Foundation China Community Manager Li Haoyang and a volunteer team composed of community members. It will be organized by SegmentFault (Segfault Community). It will be held on August 27-28 in the form of a combination of offline and online. , Focusing on the "next decade of open source infrastructure" and in-depth discussion on the future development trend of the industry.

At that time, Jonathan Bryce, Executive Director of the OpenInfra Foundation, domestic and foreign technical experts and users will be invited to present wonderful speeches. In addition to the keynote speeches, wonderful workshops and forums will be held offline. Participants can share with the technical experts. Have lunch and communicate face-to-face on important issues in the industry. In order to break geographical restrictions and allow more people to have the opportunity to participate in exchanges, this event also set up five online sub-forums to discuss 5G new infrastructure, cloud native infrastructure, open source governance, computing and network integration, and cloud infrastructure online. Hot topics in the field. More event information will be announced in the future, so stay tuned!