Enabling an OpenStack-based cloud on top of RISC-V hardware

TL;DR

This paper describes the development of a minimal viable OpenStack cloud cluster built on RISC-V hardware, demonstrating progress towards a functional RISC-V cloud ecosystem aligned with European sovereignty goals.

Contribution

It presents the first steps in porting and deploying OpenStack on real RISC-V hardware, creating a foundational prototype for future cloud infrastructure.

Findings

Cluster is nearly functional and will be complete soon

Successful porting of OpenStack services to RISC-V hardware

Progress towards a RISC-V based cloud ecosystem

Abstract

The European Union's technological sovereignty strategy centers around the RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture, with the European Processor Initiative leading efforts to build production-ready processors. Focusing on realizing a functional RISC-V cloud ecosystem, the Vitamin-V European project developed an OpenStack cluster utilizing genuine hardware. In this poster, we detail the efforts done in porting and setting up the cluster and the many software services required by OpenStack to properly run on real hardware. In this poster, we detail our efforts on building an minimal viable prototype OpenStack cluster using real hardware. The cluster is almost functional, and we expect it to be complete in the next few months.