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DESCRIPTION:This talk presents Scaleway’s journey in adopting OpenBMC at 
 cloud-operator scale.\nAs a growing European cloud service provider operat
 ing more than 100\,000 servers and thousands of GPUs\, Scaleway is pursuin
 g two strategic initiatives: adopting OCP Open Rack v3 (ORv3) to optimize 
 rack-level power delivery\, cooling\, and modularity\, and deploying OpenB
 MC as a unified firmware stack across server platforms to enable native Re
 dfish support and greater firmware autonomy.\n\nBringing OpenBMC into prod
 uction exposed several real-world challenges:\n\n- Complexity of qualifyin
 g firmware on early hardware prototypes and pre-production platforms.\n- D
 riving the organizational transformation required to integrate an entirely
  new firmware stack across multiple operational teams.\n- Managing the coe
 xistence of OpenBMC and legacy proprietary firmware within a heterogeneous
  infrastructure fleet.\n\nTo address these challenges\, we established a c
 lose co-design relationship with hardware vendors through an iterative fee
 dback loop and invested in developing in-house expertise. This approach en
 abled rapid internal adoption and progressively increased our autonomy ove
 r the firmware layer.\n\nAs we integrated OpenBMC into our infrastructure\
 , we also explored how far we could go in developing our own firmware feat
 ures to provide a consistent operational experience across OpenBMC-enabled
  platforms. During this talk\, we will share practical examples related to
  hardware inventory management and monitoring\, highlighting our efforts t
 o harmonize firmware APIs across different server platforms.\n\nLooking ah
 ead\, the focus will gradually shift from onboarding to long-term sustainm
 ent: keeping pace with evolving industry standards\, maintaining firmware 
 quality over time\, and ensuring sustainable operational support.
DTSTAMP:20260720T183549Z
LOCATION:Main
SUMMARY:OpenBMC at Cloud Scale: Scaleway’s Journey to Firmware Autonomy -
  Elyes Zekri\, Gauthier CARPENTIER
URL:https://talks.osfc.io/osfc-2026/talk/XHMWY9/
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