OpenStack Moves From Integrated Release to Big Tent Model | Linux Today

OpenStack Moves From Integrated Release to Big Tent Model

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Sean Michael Kerner
May 19, 2015

Ever since NASA and Rackspace first got together in 2010 to create OpenStack, there has been the concept of an integrated OpenStack release. However, at the OpenStack Summit here this week, developers declared the integrated release model to be dead, being replaced with a new “Big Tent” model that redefines what OpenStack includes as a platform.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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