Resilience, not sovereignty, defines OpenStack's next chapter

OpenInfra Summit Sovereignty might be the word of the hour, but the OpenStack community has another – resilience.

"It's about independence and control," said Thierry Carrez, general manager at the OpenInfra Foundation. "It's not a feature, it's really a state. You're sovereign if you have some control and some independence from others" - whether those are countries or companies."

These "others" might be countries or companies. If an organization has a dependency, "then there is some risk."

Carrez cited the VMware situation under Broadcom, where customers faced substantial price rises, and geopolitical uncertainties that have forced enterprises and governments to scrutinize their dependencies. Both may have given OpenStack an unexpected boost.

A large chunk of the OpenInfra Summit in Paris this month was devoted to VMware migration, with an impressive live demonstration during the keynote showed how the process could be (though nothing is ever as simple as ...