More than 40 million OpenStack compute cores have been validated by users to be in use, which represents a 166 percent increase from 2020 and a 60 percent increase from 2021. The OpenStack open source software provides cloud infrastructure for virtual machines, bare metal, and containers.
The summary report for the 2022 OpenStack User Survey, issued by the Open Infrastructure Foundation, provides evidence of this exponential increase. The 2022 OpenStack User Survey report gathers comments from over 430 respondents who were surveyed between August 2021 and August 2022 and records information on over 300 user deployments globally. The responding organizations’ deployment sizes span from micro to hyperscale, and they include both evaluation-only and production-running firms.
“Hype is nice but substance lasts, and as OpenStack deployments continue to grow in staggering numbers the OpenStack community is proving that it’s not only alive and well, but also delivering indisputable value to organizations,” said Thierry Carrez, General Manager of the OpenInfra Foundation. “What’s also extremely validating and exciting to our global community is that this growth is documented in organizations of all shapes and sizes and across a wide variety of industries, and the OpenStack footprint is expanding on nearly every continent. OpenStack has clearly established itself as the Open Infrastructure standard that organizations can rely on for long-term stability, security, scalability and interoperability—regardless of the architecture and hardware they are using today or what they might need as they innovate for the future.”
The Million Core Club
Other highlights of the 2022 OpenStack User Survey include the following:
The Million Core Club, an organization established in 2021 to honor the largest OpenStack deployments worldwide, has provided documentation of a sizable portion of OpenStack’s core expansion.
LINE, a Japanese-based instant messaging service with 176 million active monthly users across the top four regions, expanded to 4 million cores, a 150% increase from 2021.
Workday, a provider of cloud-based, on-demand software for financial management, human resource management, and student information systems, increased its OpenStack footprint this year by another factor of two, to 2.84 million cores.
Yahoo, Walmart Labs, Huawei, China Mobile, and China Unicom are more members of the Million Core Club.
However, the biggest customers are not the only ones providing proof of OpenStack’s expansion; in fact, OpenStack deployment sizes continue to range significantly, with the bulk of them (56%) lying between 100 and 10,000 cores. Examples of enterprises of all sizes that considerably increased the scale of their deployments this year include:
- Schwarz IT, the IT department of the largest retail company in Europe, which includes Lidl, Kaufland, and a number of manufacturing and recycling businesses, boosted its OpenStack footprint by more than 160% to 15,000 cores from 5,700 cores in 2021.
- One of the top 10 telecoms in Europe boosted the number of cores in OpenStack to 120,000, a 131% increase from the 52,000 cores it had in 2021.
- Compared to its 540,000 core footprint in 2021, an American video game producer grew its large-scale OpenStack deployment to 650,000 cores, a 20% increase.
- OVHcloud, one of the world’s largest public cloud and dedicated hosting providers is drawing close to becoming a Million Core Club member, citing a footprint of 900,000 cores, an increase of 10% from 2021.
- Increased use of Magnum and rising LOKI implementation would point to the significance of Kubernetes integration. As the OpenInfra standard, Linux OpenStack Kubernetes Infrastructure (LOKI) is being used in production at an increasing pace. Over 85% of OpenStack deployments now use Kubernetes, with 12% more using OpenShift and 73% using standard Kubernetes. An increase to 21% (up from just 16% last year) of customers running production workloads with Magnum, the OpenStack service for container orchestration, further supports the surge in OpenStack and Kubernetes production integrations.
About The OpenInfra Foundation
By hosting open source projects and communities of practice, such as data center cloud, edge computing, NFV, CI/CD, and container infrastructure, the OpenInfra Foundation helps a community of 100,000 people in 187 countries create and implement open infrastructure internationally.
In the past, data centers in North America, Europe, and Asia, particularly China, have widely used OpenStack. In areas where there hasn’t been as much activity traditionally, new data centers have been opened this year. Africa, South America, and several Asian nations have all opened OpenStack-based data centers this year, which has expanded investment and cooperation between these companies and the OpenInfra Foundation.
The OpenInfra Foundation has gained the backing of Nipa Cloud, Atlancis, Viettel, NHN Cloud, Okestro, and the University of Delhi during the past year in order to further the goal of creating open source communities that produce software.
