OpenStack Summit May 2015 Vancouver

OpenStack was previously defined by one thing: “the integrated release”. This single term ended up meaning different things for everyone. It both became too large and too small an artifact to represent what the community does. It was too big for many people to deploy, and too small to fit the features that many people wanted. It was time for a change.


In this talk, we will look at what the proposed changes are, and where we currently stand in implementing them. We’ll explore what the changes mean for the development, testing, and releasing of OpenStack. We’ll explain why we think this will both give us a more solid base infrastructure layer, and allow the creation of numerous add ons that let consumers grow over time. And we’ll leave plenty of time for burning questions.