The OpenStack community has released OpenStack 2026.1 (Gazpacho). The release places a heavy emphasis on operational simplicity, live migration for workloads on VMware, and hardware flexibility.
One might wish to describe OpenStack as a sovereign alternative to American hyperscalers as well as VMware and Nutanix. While open-source offerings and sovereign ones are far from equivalent, there’s at least some reason to see OpenStack as a potential option. Forty percent of contributions came from European, which the OpenInfra Foundation attributes to growing digital sovereignty initiatives across the region.
OpenStack contains a treasure trove of associated solutions, now housed under the OpenInfra Foundation. There’s enough to fill a grab bag of private cloud, edge and virtualization needs, including Kata Containers, StarlingX and CI/CD platform Zuul.
VMware replacement remains a focal point
Parallel live migrations in Nova are among the most…
