Why OpenEuler Is Shaping the Future of Cloud‑Native Linux Platforms

On September 17, 2019, openEuler was publicly announced by Huawei to be open‑sourced by year‑end, and the Euler operating system has now released its source code, images, and development test environment.

Huawei states that OpenEuler’s vision is to build an innovative platform through community collaboration, creating a unified and open operating system that supports multi‑processor architectures and promotes a thriving hardware‑software ecosystem.

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

The OpenEuler project originates from Huawei’s server operating system EulerOS and was renamed openEuler after open‑sourcing. According to official information, EulerOS targets enterprise‑grade general server platforms, is based on a stable Linux kernel, supports Kunpeng processors and container virtualization, and offers high reliability, security, and assurance, making it one of the best OS choices for TaiShan servers.

OpenEuler mainly includes two organization repositories: one for source code (currently more than 20 repositories) and a community‑incubated sub‑project ecosystem that includes A‑Tune and iSula. iSulad is a lightweight container runtime based on gRPC, written in C, and fully OCI‑compatible; A‑Tune is an AI‑driven system software that can automatically optimize performance.

The other organization, src‑openeuler, stores the software packages that build the OpenEuler ISO and installation images. Gitee statistics show roughly 1,000 packages, each providing ARM64 and x86 versions, and the number continues to grow.

Project source code repositories:

https://gitee.com/openeuler

https://gitee.com/src-openeuler