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| Welcome to the Open Infrastructure Community Newsletter, a digest of the latest developments and activities across open infrastructure projects, events, and users!
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| Spotlight on… StarlingX: A Fully Featured Cloud for the Distributed Edge
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| StarlingX, a pilot project supported by the OpenStack Foundation (OSF), provides an integrated open source platform optimized for edge computing and IoT use cases. StarlingX integrates well-known open source components—Ceph, Kubernetes, relevant OpenStack services among others—taking them to the next level to meet strict requirements like providing low latency and high bandwidth for applications with a small footprint on the infrastructure layer. The platform is designed to be scalable, and the community is continuously working on making it more flexible, reliable, and feature rich.
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The StarlingX community held its first contributor meetup January 15-16 in Chandler, Arizona to discuss topics relevant to design, development and testing activities, onboarding, and processes.
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At the StarlingX Contributor Meetup, attendees discussed a wide range of topics from release planning through documentation and testing to onboarding | |
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| Earlier, the community had decided to switch to two project releases per year starting with the next release scheduled for May 2019, based on OpenStack Stein. Subsequent StarlingX software releases will align with the OpenStack release cadence. At the meetup, the community discussed the status of items on the release roadmap to agree on an execution plan and priorities. Discussion points included the status of items the community is working on to contribute to upstream projects such as OpenStack Nova and Neutron. Additional topics included items that can stretch to multiple releases including containerization of control plane services, multi-operating system (multi-OS) support and further support for mixed workloads including VMs, containers, and bare metal. StarlingX is supported by a growing community, and the members are prioritizing onboarding and documentation to help users and new contributors try out the software and get involved. The community is currently working on a hands-on workshop to guide attendees through the installation process and show a few software features. The next Technical Steering Committee (TSC) election will occur in the second quarter of this year. Five seats will be available—if you are interested in serving on the TSC, get involved in the community and make sure your name is recognized.
If you would like to get involved in the community you can:
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| OpenStack Foundation News - After you register for the Open Infrastructure Summit Denver (by the February 27 early bird deadline!), set your sights on Shanghai, China the week of November 4, 2019. Registration and sponsorship opportunities will be available soon, but you can sign up for updates here.
- Today, community voting for the Open Infrastructure Summit Denver opened! Vote for your favorite session ideas before February 4 to help the Programming Committees shape the final schedule. Let’s bring the best content possible to Denver!
- This weekend, the OpenStack Foundation will have a booth at FOSDEM. Stop by the booth to meet members of the open infrastructure community, and get involved.
- The Diversity & Inclusion Working Group is conducting an anonymous survey to better understand the diversity and makeup of the community. Participation is appreciated so we can better understand and serve the community. Share any questions with working group chair, Amy Marrich (spotz on IRC).
OpenStack Foundation Project News - The next OpenStack Ops meetup will happen in Berlin, March 6th and 7th. For more details, see the event planning etherpad.
- OpenStack SIGs (special interest groups) are groups of contributors interested in working on a specific problem space in OpenStack. We just added our 13th SIG, the Auto-scaling SIG, to improve user experience on auto-scaling and its related features (like metering, cluster scheduling, and application lifecycle management).
- Technical Committee elections are coming up! Nominations start February 12, with voting starting February 26.
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| Questions / Feedback / Contribute This newsletter is edited by the OpenStack Foundation staff to highlight open infrastructure communities. We want to hear from you! If you have any feedback, news or stories that you want to share, reach us through community@openstack.org.
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