Discover openEuler: Huawei’s Open‑Source OS and Its Community Projects

openEuler Open‑Source Release

In September 2019 Huawei announced that its server OS EulerOS would be open‑sourced as openEuler by the end of the year. The source code, binary images and development environments have now been published.

Project Vision

openEuler aims to build a community‑driven platform that supports multiple processor architectures (including Kunpeng), provides a unified open operating system, and encourages a thriving hardware‑software ecosystem.

Relation to EulerOS

EulerOS is an enterprise‑grade Linux distribution built on a stable kernel, supporting container virtualization and the TaiShan server line. openEuler inherits these features and adds community governance.

Repository Structure

The community maintains two top‑level Gitee repositories:

openeuler – source code and core projects (20+ sub‑repositories). Notable incubated sub‑projects:

iSulad : a lightweight container runtime written in C, exposing gRPC services and fully compatible with the OCI runtime specification, offering an alternative to runc.

A‑Tune : a system‑level software that applies AI techniques to automatically tune performance parameters.

src‑openeuler – binary packages that compose the openEuler ISO and installation media. As of the latest Gitee statistics the repository contains roughly 1,000 packages, each providing builds for both arm64 and x86_64 architectures.

Automation scripts in the infrastructure projects build the full system on Huawei Cloud, as reflected in the commit history.

Related Open‑Source Initiatives

Huawei also announced that its GaussDB database will be open‑sourced, covering about 70 % of enterprise scenarios, with full availability planned before 30 June 2020.

Access URLs

Source code: https://gitee.com/openeuler Package repository:

https://gitee.com/src-openeuler