Gap explains how a retail customer can give back to OpenStack

American retail giant Gap deployed its first OpenStack cloud in 2013, but now the vast majority of its forward-facing e-commerce platforms now run on the open source infrastructure.Eli Elliott, infrastructure architect responsible for private cloud at Gap, explained to Computerworld UK how the company's close partnership with Rackspace -- among other OpenStack vendors -- saw it build and develop from an isolated testing pipeline to running all kinds of workloads."We work pretty closely with Rack