Members of the OpenStack community have identified software upgrades as a major ‘pain point,’ with cutting downtime top of the agenda as the open source cloud platform continues to mature. OpenStack is open-source software for building and managing public and private clouds.

Ruchi Bhargava, IT hybrid cloud product owner at Intel, said that, as OpenStack prepares for its next release, dubbed Kilo, some customers are stuck on older versions of the software.

“Many are probably still on Havana — with maybe some on Grizzly — as you want to do upgrades without bringing downtime to the tenants,” Bhargava told delegates at the OpenStack Summit in Paris, adding that integrating legacy hardware into OpenStack is another challenge for enterprises.

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