OpenInfra for Digital Sovereignty

OpenInfra projects like OpenStack and Kata Containers are freely available and community-driven, enabling nations to create local infrastructure without vendor lock-in or external dependencies. This model builds trust and increases resilience to geopolitical or commercial environment changes. It also allows for more controlled ownership over one’s data, including the storage and usage of it.

In January, the OpenInfra community kicked off a collaborative effort to elevate OpenInfra projects’ role in enabling digital sovereignty. Participants represented several regions where this trend is putting pressure on infrastructure to adapt to regional or local regulations and needs. The group will finalize goals for the effort and regularly meet to develop case studies and documentation to improve awareness for OpenInfra and how it provides governments and enterprises the tools to build local, trusted systems without sacrificing global collaboration. If you're interested in participating in the Digital Sovereignty Working Group, add your name and contact information to the etherpad.

OpenInfra Foundation News

• Please welcome OpenInfra Foundation’s newest Platinum Member, Viettel. Viettel has grown into one of the world’s most valuable telecommunications brands, operating in 11 countries across Asia, Africa and the Americas. Read more about their investment in OpenInfra here.
• We’re also thrilled to introduce our newest Silver Member: Hystax, a cloud migration and disaster recovery organization, showing the continued momentum of VMware to OpenStack Migration.
• On September 8-9, OpenInfra Summit Asia | KubeCon | CloudNativeCon | PyTorch Conference China will take place in Shanghai. This flagship event unites adopters, technologists, and community members from across the region to drive innovation in open source infrastructure, cloud native computing, and open source AI around common, industry-wide use cases like nextgen AI. Over two days, the OpenInfra community will collaborate with the PyTorch and CNCF communities across dozens of open technologies, including two of the most active open source projects to exist—Kubernetes and OpenStack—to shape the future of open source software and technology as a whole.
• If you’re interested in joining the global collaboration around open source infrastructure, consider membership of the OpenInfra Foundation. Book a meeting with Jimmy McArthur today.

OpenInfra Summit Asia

• Combined with KubeCon CloudNativeCon & PyTorch Conference China
• September 8 & 9, 2026
• Shanghai, China | Shanghai International Convention Center Oriental Riverside Hotel
• Become a Sponsor | Contracts must be signed by July 17, 2026.

OpenStack: Open source software for creating private and public clouds

• If you are deploying and operating OpenStack clouds, check out the OpenStack Ops Radio Hour gathering. If you’re interested in participating, please fill out the group’s survey to help fine tune timing and cadence for the upcoming calls!
• OpenStack election season is here again. Nominations for Technical Committee and Project Team Lead seats open Wednesday, February 4, with campaigning and balloting to follow later in the month. See the OpenStack election dashboard for the complete schedule and other details.

Kata Containers: The speed of containers, the security of VMs

• The new Kata Containers 3.25 release is now available!
• If you’re evaluating or using Kata Containers, please take a few minutes to fill out the User Survey and provide feedback to the community!

OpenDev: Free software needs free tools

• OpenDev replaced all encryption keys and project SSH keys in our Zuul deployment on January 8, 2026. You may need to rotate and reencrypt Zuul secrets. More information can be found in this announcement.
• OpenDev moved its synchronous communications from #opendev on the OFTC IRC network to #opendev:opendev.org on Matrix.
• OpenDev Service Coordinator elections begin this month. Find out more information, including important dates, in this mailing list thread.

StarlingX: A fully featured cloud for the distributed edge

• The StarlingX community has just declared milestone 2 for the upcoming 12.0 release. Keep an eye out for further updates as contributors work on adding all accepted features for the upcoming version.
• If you’re evaluating or using StarlingX, please take a few minutes to fill out the User Survey and provide feedback to the community!

Zuul: Stop merging broken code

• Zuul 13.1.0 has been released with an important security update. All deployments of Zuul should be upgraded to this version or a newer version. Details can be found in this announcement.

Upcoming OpenInfra and Community Events

• 23-26 March | Meet the Kata Containers community at KubeCon Cloud NativeCon EU in Amsterdam | Booth #1362

For more information about OpenInfra community events, please contact events@openinfra.dev.