The roadmap

The OpenStack roadmap is nothing short of exciting when we look at it. There are over a hundred companies backing OpenStack, it has over 6000 contributors and is slowly becoming the de-facto cloud standard. There are several new OpenStack services that have been added in the newly-released Kilo and several others that are planned for the next major release of Liberty and beyond that.

With the complete suite of the different OpenStack products, OpenStack is currently quite ahead in the market compared to any of its competitors in the FOSS segment. Coming second in this segment is OpenNebula, which is far behind in terms of adoption numbers.

The following diagram shows the full roadmap for OpenStack since its inception in 2010. At this ...

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