Among the many contributors to OpenStack development, Linux vendor Red Hat tops the list as measured by volume of code contributions. For the Havana release, Red Hat made 3,381 code commits, which represent 21 percent of the code for Havana.
Tim Burke, VP Cloud Computing and Virtualization Development at Red Hat, explained to Datamation that with the Havana release the focus for Red Hat was about including more enterprise-level features. Burke said that OpenStack isn’t just for test labs now, it is actually being geared up to for large scale real world deployments.