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Airship 2021 Annual Report

Since Airship was announced as an OpenInfra Foundation pilot project at the 2018 OpenStack Summit in Vancouver, it has provided operators with a unified, fully-declarative, versatile platform that…

By Ildiko Vancsa on 26/01/2022

Airship User Survey Report

Since the launch of the Airship User Survey in May 2020, ten organizations have completed it, spanning industries such as telecommunications, Information Technology, Academic / Research, Government…

By Sunny Cai on 04/01/2022

Airship 2 - Released!

Airship 2.0 is here! Airship 2 ties together the best-in-class Cloud Native projects to create a fully declarative lifecycle management system for infrastructure and software delivery. We are pleased…

By Rodolfo Pacheco, Alan Meadows, Matt McEuen, Pete Birley on 16/04/2021

Airship Update - March 2021

What follows is the Airship Community Update for March 2021, brought to you by the Airship Technical Committee. AIRSHIP BLOG The Airship blog is a great way to keep up with what's going on in the…

By Alexander Hughes on 18/03/2021

Airship Update - February 2021

What follows is the Airship Community Update for February 2021, brought to you by the Airship Technical Committee. AIRSHIP BLOG The Airship blog is a great way to keep up with what's going on in the…

By Alexander Hughes on 19/02/2021

Airship 2020 Annual Report

Since Airship was announced as an OpenStack Foundation pilot project at the 2018 OpenStack Summit in Vancouver, it has provided operators with a unified, fully-declarative, versatile platform that…

By Drew Walters on 28/01/2021

Airship Update - January 2021

What follows is the Airship Community Update for January 2021, brought to you by the Airship Technical Committee. AIRSHIP BLOG The Airship blog is a great way to keep up with what's going on in the…

By Alexander Hughes on 19/01/2021

Airship Update - December 2020

What follows is the Airship Community Update for December 2020, brought to you by the Airship Technical Committee. AIRSHIP BLOG The Airship blog is a great way to keep up with what's going on in the…

By Alexander Hughes on 15/12/2020

Airship Update - November 2020

What follows is the Airship Community Update for November 2020, brought to you by the Airship Technical Committee. AIRSHIP BLOG The Airship blog is a great way to keep up with what's going on in the…

By Alexander Hughes on 16/11/2020

Airship Update - October 2020

What follows is the Airship Community Update for October 2020, brought to you by the Airship Technical Committee. SPOTLIGHT ON... The community completed the Airship 2.0 beta milestone! The team is…

By Alexander Hughes on 12/10/2020

Airship Update - September 2020

What follows is the Airship Community Update for September 2020, brought to you by the Airship Technical Committee. SPOTLIGHT ON... Airship was featured in this . AT&T credits Airship as the tool used…

By Alexander Hughes on 16/09/2020

Airship featured at virtual Open Infrastructure Summit in October

In a few weeks, you'll have the opportunity to meet and collaborate with the Airship community at the upcoming virtual , October 19-23. The virtual event includes more than 100 sessions and thousands…

By Sunny Cai on 09/09/2020

Airship Update - August 2020

What follows is the Airship Community Update for August 2020, brought to you by the Airship Technical Committee. SPOTLIGHT ON... Several members of the Airship community contributed to a whitepaper…

By Alexander Hughes on 13/08/2020

Congratulations To The 2020-2021 Working Committee

The Airship team is excited to announce the completion of its second ! The , one of the two governing bodies for Airship, is responsible for defining the project core principles, performing marketing…

By Alexander Hughes on 03/08/2020

Airship 2.0 is Alpha - Lessons Learned

In our last Airship v2.0 evolution post, we promised we would dive into the evolution of how we will do cluster deployment in a Kubernetes-native way. Before we go into that explanation, we want to…

By Alan Meadows and Rodolfo Pacheco on 03/08/2020

Airship 2.0 - How Ironic Delivers Abstraction and Automation Using Open Source Software

ANNOUNCING THE IRONIC BAREMETAL WHITEPAPER This week the OpenStack Foundation hosted the event, and one of the many exciting things announced was the . This document details how Ironic delivers…

By Alexander Hughes on 22/07/2020

Airship Update - July 2020

What follows is the Airship Community Update for July 2020, brought to you by the Airship Technical Committee. SPOTLIGHT ON... Last month the community elected the 2020-2021 Technical Committee. For…

By Alexander Hughes on 13/07/2020

Congratulations To The 2020-2021 Technical Committee

The Airship team is excited to announce the completion of its second ! The , one of the two governing bodies for Airship, is responsible for ensuring Airship projects adhere to the project's core…

By Alexander Hughes on 22/06/2020

Airship Update - June 2020

What follows is the Airship Community Update for the month of June 2020, brought to you by the Airship Technical Committee. AIRSHIP BLOG The Airship blog is a great way to keep up with what's going on…

By Alexander Hughes on 15/06/2020

Airship Update - May 2020

What follows is the Airship Community Update for the month of May 2020, brought to you by the Airship Technical Committee. SPOTLIGHT ON .... Learn how Airship 2.0, targeted for delivery later this…

By Alexander Hughes on 15/05/2020

Airship 2.0 White Paper - A Roadmap for Solving NFVi Challenges on the Way to Full 5G Deployment

When our engineering team helped found the open source Airship Community in , the goal was to deliver an Open Infrastructure Project that would enable telecommunications operators like AT&T to…

By Ryan van Wyk on 05/05/2020

Airship Update - April 2020

What follows is the Airship Community Update for the month of April 2020, brought to you by the Airship Technical Committee. SPOTLIGHT ON .... Learn how to set up a Cluster API development environment…

By Alexander Hughes on 15/04/2020

Setting up a development environment with Cluster API using Kind

Airship is a collection of loosely coupled, but interoperable open source tools that declaratively automates cloud provisioning. Airship is designed to make your cloud deployments simple, repeatable…

By Alexander Hughes on 14/04/2020

Airship Update - March 2020

What follows is the Airship Community Update for the month of March 2020, brought to you by the Airship Technical Committee. SPOTLIGHT ON .... Daylight Saving Time impacts community meetings. If you…

By Alexander Hughes on 20/03/2020

Airship Update - February 2020

What follows is the Airship Community Update for the month of February 2020, brought to you by the Airship Technical Committee. SPOTLIGHT ON .... The Airship Technical and Working Committees each had…

By Alexander Hughes on 12/02/2020

Pre-Alpha Airship Blog Series 6 - Armada Growing Pains

UPDATE 03-August-2020: Airship 2.0 development spans multiple milestones. Upon completing the first major milestone, Alpha, the community took some time to reflect on lessons learned and how they…

By Alan Meadows and Rodolfo Pacheco on 30/01/2020

A year in review: getting confirmed and looking ahead to 2.0

established incredible momentum in 2019, including confirmation by the OSF as a top-level project in October, a crucial stage of Airship’s maturity. The confirmation as a top-level project signifies…

By Alexander Hughes on 28/01/2020

Airship Update - November 2019

What follows is the Airship Community Update for the month of November, 2019, brought to you by the Airship Technical Committee. SPOTLIGHT ON .... The Airship community was at the Open Infrastructure…

By Alexander Hughes on 08/12/2019

Airship Update - October 2019

What follows is the Airship Community Update for the month of October, 2019, brought to you by the Airship Technical Committee. SPOTLIGHT ON .... Breaking News: Airship has exited the pilot phase and…

By Alexander Hughes on 30/10/2019

Pre-Alpha Airship Blog Series 5 - Drydock and Its Relationship to Cluster API

UPDATE 03-August-2020: Airship 2.0 development spans multiple milestones. Upon completing the first major milestone, Alpha, the community took some time to reflect on lessons learned and how they…

By Alan Meadows and Rodolfo Pacheco on 22/10/2019

Pre-Alpha Airship Blog Series 4 - Shipyard - an Evolution of the Front Door

UPDATE 03-August-2020: Airship 2.0 development spans multiple milestones. Upon completing the first major milestone, Alpha, the community took some time to reflect on lessons learned and how they…

By Alan Meadows and Rodolfo Pacheco on 10/09/2019

Airship Update - September 2019

Welcome to the Airship Community Update, a digest of the latest developments and activities across Airship projects, events, and users! One goal of the Airship Technical Committee is to help build…

By Ryan van Wyk on 03/09/2019

Airship at the Open Infrastructure Summit Shanghai in November

You can meet the Airship community at the upcoming in Shanghai, November 4-6. The Airship community will join 30 other open source projects attending the Summit to collaborate in the open. If you…

By Chris Hoge on 19/08/2019

Pre-Alpha Airship Blog Series 3 - Airship 2.0 Architecture High Level

UPDATE 03-August-2020: Airship 2.0 development spans multiple milestones. Upon completing the first major milestone, Alpha, the community took some time to reflect on lessons learned and how they…

By Alan Meadows and Rodolfo Pacheco on 10/08/2019

Congratulations To The Newly Elected Airship Technical Committee!

The Airship team is excited to announce the completion of its first The , one of the two governing bodies for Airship, is responsible for ensuring Airship projects adhere to the project’s core…

By Chris Hoge on 25/07/2019

Pre-Alpha Airship Blog Series 2 - An Educated Evolution

UPDATE 03-August-2020: Airship 2.0 development spans multiple milestones. Upon completing the first major milestone, Alpha, the community took some time to reflect on lessons learned and how they…

By Rodolfo Pacheco and Alan Meadows on 11/07/2019

Pre-Alpha Airship Blog Series 1 - Evolution Towards 2.0

UPDATE 03-August-2020: Airship 2.0 development spans multiple milestones. Upon completing the first major milestone, Alpha, the community took some time to reflect on lessons learned and how they…

By Ryan van Wyk, Rodolfo Pacheco and Alan Meadows on 12/06/2019

Airship session recordings from the Open Infrastructure Summit Denver

Did you miss any Airship news or updates at the Open Infrastructure Summit? We’ve got you covered. With Airship’s exciting announcement of the availability of its at the Open Infrastructure Summit in…

By Ashleigh Gregory on 05/06/2019

Elevating DevOps and Enabling 5G with Airship

Two years ago, AT&T Communications CEO John Donovan threw down the gauntlet to his Technology and Operations team – we were going to be first to launch mobile, standards-based 5G in 2018. Never mind…

By Amy Wheelus on 29/04/2019

Airship featured at Open Infrastructure Summit Denver in April

The Airship project is taking flight at the the upcoming , April 29 - May 1. Airship community members will join 30 other open source projects attending the Summit to collaborate on open…

By Chris Hoge on 20/02/2019