VEXXHOST and OpenDev: Strengthening the Future of Open Source Infrastructure

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Since 2016, VEXXHOST has played a pivotal role in supporting the OpenDev team, providing essential infrastructure that powers much of the OpenStack community’s development and CI systems. What began as an early collaboration with the OpenStack Infrastructure team has grown into a nearly decade-long partnership built on shared goals, technical innovation, and mutual benefit.

Behind the Scenes: How VEXXHOST’s Infrastructure Accelerates Open Source Infrastructure Software Development.

At the heart of this collaboration is the unique and substantial resource donation VEXXHOST provides to OpenDev. Today, VEXXHOST hosts both critical control plane services and specialized CI test environments that support the OpenDev ecosystem. These resources are not just generous, they are essential.

  • For control plane services, VEXXHOST provides infrastructure for demanding workloads like Gerrit (code review), Gitea (Git hosting), and DNS. These services are at the core of OpenDev’s operations, and they require a hosting environment that is both powerful and stable. Gerrit, for example, is known for its heavy resource requirements (high memory, significant CPU, and fast disk storage). VEXXHOST’s ability