Why OpenStack and Kata Containers are both seeing a resurgence of adoption

Suwon, South Korea: Quite discreetly, the OpenInfra Foundation and the open-source projects it promotes (such as OpenStack, and the Kata Containers, virtual machines (VM) as containers) are changing the world. That became clear to everyone who attended OpenInfra Summit Asia.   

OpenStack has long been the top telecom cloud service. You'll never see it as a user, but OpenStack oversees your connection and services almost every time you use 5G on your smartphone with almost every carrier. 

OpenStack is expanding well beyond the telecoms now, though. The cloud operating system has seen a resurgence in interest and adoption over the past year. Mark Collier, OpenStack's COO told me in an interview, "We've just seen this huge kind of resurgence of interest, and more people coming out, talking publicly about what they're doing with OpenStack."

First, companies are switching from public hyper-clouds, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, and Google Cloud, to private clouds. As Younghold Han, Hyundai's VP of car cloud, said in an interview, "There are several reasons why we are using an OpenStack private cloud, hCloud. First, there's data security. Let's remember that a few weeks ago, Azure had a major security failure. We want to control our security. And finally, there's cost. So before Hyundai, I worked in Samsung's mobile business unit. We launched multiple services for our users that ran on AWS, and you cannot imagine how the costs grew exponentially. So we built out our private cloud."

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