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 point, there are 12 programs that are already part of OpenStack and four that are in active development (they already have had interim beta releases that can be used in Kilo) to be included in the next release of Liberty.

We have already covered in the first chapter of the book, the services and the functions they perform that are being added to Liberty, as the developer versions in Kilo have been released as well. The previous diagram shows the addition of the stable releases of the projects to the corresponding OpenStack releases.

With all the projects, both the stable ones and the ones under development, OpenStack comes remarkably close to Amazon Web Services and its offering. So when deployed, OpenStack can provide both the feel and functionality of the public cloud giant in-house and can run in a controlled environment.