Yep, we’re wholeheartedly jumping on the year in review train! There’s a lot we’re proud of accomplishing in 2024, less than three years out from OpenMetal launching as an independent entity after being incubated under InMotion Hosting. This year, we’ve been heavily focused on improving our hosted private cloud powered by OpenStack and bare metal IaaS solutions, along with growing our community participation and support.

Let’s take a trip down memory lane and revisit some of our favorite highlights from 2024!

Product and Platform Updates

OpenMetal Central

We’ve released numerous updates to OpenMetal Central, our custom user dashboard and management portal. These helped streamline the user experience with a focus on checkout enhancements, improve resource management, and provide a new and improved organization-level dashboard. Highlights include:

  • Revamped checkout process with features like order IDs, additional user controls and options, and semaphore UI improvements (February, April, May, September)
  • Bandwidth usage tracking and notifications (February)
  • Detailed billing information and support ticketing options (February)
  • Introduction of FinOps dashboards (April)
  • New product tiers including v4 hardware and bare metal options (June)
  • Launch of the HTML5 IPMI web console (October)
  • Transition to organization-based view with consolidated billing and resource management (October)

Private Cloud Core v3

This major release brought some big updates to our underlying infrastructure, including:

  • CentOS Stream 9 as the new base OS (April)
  • OpenStack 2023.2 (“Bobcat”) with support for Kubernetes v1.26.8 (April)
  • Enhanced memory management and overcommit options (April)
  • Built-in Let’s Encrypt support for automatic certificate updates (April)
  • Migration to Ceph Reef for improved storage management (April)

Community and Partnerships

Foundation Support

We boosted our participation in the open source and cloud communities through:

  • Joining the Linux Foundation, Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), and FinOps Foundation (January)
  • Renewing our membership with the OpenInfra Foundation (January)
  • Supporting the OpenInfra Foundation’s CI/CD cloud with our latest OpenStack release (July)

Building Relationships

We became more active within our industry and community by:

Customer Success and Support

Customer Case Studies

We love showcasing our awesome customers and telling their success stories in using our platform. Customer case studies published this year include:

Startup Support

  • We launched the Startup eXcelerator Program to provide early-stage businesses with cloud credits, consulting, and technology assistance to support and help grow their fledgling organizations (July)

Looking Ahead

We are so thankful for the continued support of our customers and community. In 2025, we’re committed to further pushing the boundaries of private cloud innovation and delivering even more value to our users. Stay tuned for exciting announcements in the new year (of which there will be MANY!)


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