1. The StarlingX Story Learn, Try, Get Involved!
Together
Learn, Try, Get Involved!
Ian Joliffe – StarlingX TSC Member
Bruce Jones - StarlingX distro.openstack project lead
Starlingx.io

2. Agenda What problem does StarlingX solve?
What is StarlingX? How is it different from other projects?
How did we establish our governance and how do we run the project? What have we learned?
What’s it like to be a Pilot Project?
How did we turn traditional developers into open source developers?
How are we growing our community?
DO we need this? Bruce

3. Edge Computing
Bruce
Applications benefit from reduced network latency and traffic by moving computing to the edge
The same open source software that powers clouds today has been optimized for the edge in StarlingX

4. StarlingX Timeline May 2018 Project launch October 2018
Ian
May 2018
Project launch
October 2018
First community release
OpenStack Pike with many patches
May 2019
Project one year anniversary
August 2019
Release 2.0
Kubernetes 1.13
OpenStack Stein with no out of tree* patches
* We are back-porting a few key fixes from Nova master

5. What is StarlingX?
StarlingX is a fully integrated end-to-end stack built for the Edge
All components have been selected and tuned for the Edge.
We are Fanatical Supporters™ of Edge.
Ian

6. What is Edge? Everyone has their own definition of Edge
We agree that Edge != Cloud
Some users call set-top devices Edge
Some users call 400 Node data centers Edge
In the end, Edge is whatever works best for the user
Together

7. Pre-configured Deployment Options
Worker / Compute VM
Container
Master / Control
Single Server
“Simplex”
Runs all functions
Dual Server
“Duplex”
Redundant design
Multiple Server
“Standard”
Redundant and highly scalable
Ian
The architecture is designed to scale based on the needs of the particular Edge computing environment. The same platform can run on:
Single Server
Running Controller, Compute, Networking and Storage functions,
Supported on small hardware form factor
Dual Server
Each Server running Controller, Compute, Networking and Storage functions,
Controller, Networking and Storage functions run HA across two servers,
Multiple Server
Controller, Compute and Storage functions all running on independent servers,
2x Node HA Controller Node Cluster
2-100x Compute Node Cluster
OPTIONAL 2-9 Node CEPH Storage Node Cluster
And L3 Networking services distributed across compute nodes.

8. The Journey Code Established Governance TSC Elections Grow User Base
Increase Diversity of Contributions
Transition

9. StarlingX Project Governance
We established our governance early in the project
We “borrowed” from the Kata Containers Governance and combined that with many helpful comments and feedback from the Open Infra Foundation team (Thank you!)
We have an initially appointed TSC with the first round of elections coming up in June for 5 of the 9 positions.
Bruce

10. StarlingX Project Governance
OpenStack TC
Nova PTL
Neutron PTL
Etc…. PTL
StarlingX TSC
Containers PL & TL
Networking PL & TL
Etc…. PL &TL
Together
We split the traditional PTL role into the PL (Project Lead) and TL (Technical Lead). This allows our TLs to focus more on technical issues and allows community members with project management experience to put it to good use.

11. Being a pilot project
We greatly appreciate the support of the Open Infrastructure team.
We congratulate Kata Containers and Zuul on their promotion and look forward to following in their footsteps!
We are actively using (and hopefully not abusing) the project resources provided.
Being a integration project raises new challenges for infrastructure that we plan to discuss with the team at the PTG
Bruce

12. Moving toward promotion
We helped write the promotion guidelines
We are running on OpenStack master every day and will ship with Stein. Thank you to the community!
Many cross project collaborations underway
We continually focus on the Five! Opens
Ian

13. Turning traditional developers into open source community members
Together
This is hard and very important
We want to create an environment that is welcoming to contributors without strong open source experience and give them the room to grow
As leaders of teams new to a community we have to provide training for our people so they can contribute more effectively
This is about growing skills and changing culture and behavior

14. Growing a community Together This is also hard 
If we build it, will they come?
Outreach and evangelism is very important
We have engaged across a number of related communities e.g. OpenInfra Edge WG, LF Edge, etc…
We work hard to welcome new members to our community
But can do better at making it easier to contribute ….

15. The Journey Code Established Governance TSC Elections Grow User Base
Increase Diversity of Contributions
Ian
June

16. Ian
Journey
Technology
Community

17. For The Distributed Edge
A Fully Featured Cloud
For The Distributed Edge
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18. Thank You!