Who keeps the images coming

Open Image Cloud is a non-profit community project. Every image is rebuilt, signed and booted on a real cloud each time upstream moves, and that work runs on what sponsors give: time, money or resources.

Current sponsors

StackOpsTime
Maintains the build pipeline, the images and the website. Since 2026.

Ways to support the project

Time: People who maintain the pipeline, review changes, add images and answer issues.
Resources: Cloud capacity for the runtime tests, build runners, object storage and bandwidth.
Money: Funding that pays for infrastructure the project cannot get donated.

Where the support goes

Each image release goes through the same steps: the upstream image is downloaded and checked, customized in a build runner, signed with cosign, then booted on a real OpenStack cloud where a smoke test checks networking, cloud-init, SSH access and the guest agent. Only then is it published to object storage and listed in the catalog. Every distribution is watched daily for new upstream releases, so this runs many times a week.

The recurring costs are the test instances, the storage and bandwidth for every published version, and the time spent following upstream changes. Sponsorship keeps all of this free for everyone who uses the images, with no account and no paid tier.

Become a sponsor

Write to sponsors@openimages.cloud with what you would like to offer. Sponsors are listed here once they agree to be named; sponsorship never changes how images are built or tested.