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StarlingX at the virtual Project Teams Gathering in October, 2024

Get the highlights of StarlingX discussions and project updates at the virtual event in October, 2024. The StarlingX community had sessions on two consecutive days at the event to go through project…

By Ildiko Vancsa on 2024/10/30

Deploying your application as a StarlingX Application

The article is part of a  that guides you through the various ways of deploying a containerized application on top of the StarlingX platform. As a reminder, the methods are the following:  methods…

By Tomás N. P. Barros on 2024/08/27

Redundant PTP timing clock sources

In the rapidly evolving telecommunications landscape, 5G stands as a beacon of innovation, promising unparalleled connectivity and transformative capabilities. With its potential to revolutionize…

By Andre Mauricio Zelak on 2024/08/12

4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processor with Intel vRAN Boost support in StarlingX

Learn more about a new Kubernetes operator in StarlingX 9.0 for Intel vRAN Boost accelerator. The release includes a new Kubernetes Operator to manage and configure the integrated Intel vRAN Boost…

By Balendu Mouli Burla on 2024/07/30

ORAN Notification for Monitoring System Timing Synchronization

In previous blog posts, we have explored how Precision Time Protocol is supported and configured in StarlingX. Once a system is configured to synchronize time from a local GNSS source or external PTP…

By Cole Walker on 2024/06/24

Securing Applications Using AppArmor

Learn about securing end user’s hosted containers using AppArmor in the StarlingX 9.0. About AppArmor is a Linux kernel security module that confines programs to a limited set of resources. AppArmor…

By Jagatguru Mishra on 2024/05/20

StarlingX at the virtual Project Teams Gathering in April, 2024 - Part 2

Get the highlights of StarlingX discussions and project updates at the April, 2024 virtual event. The StarlingX community had sessions on two consecutive days at the event to discuss use cases, go…

By Ildiko Vancsa on 2024/05/08

StarlingX at the virtual Project Teams Gathering in April, 2024 - Part 1

Get the highlights of StarlingX discussions and project updates at the April, 2024 virtual event. The StarlingX community had sessions on two consecutive days at the event to discuss use cases, go…

By Ildiko Vancsa on 2024/05/01

New Power Metrics and Power Management capabilities on StarlingX

Introducing Power Metrics and Power Manager apps on StarlingX 9.0 Introduction StarlingX has made significant strides in enhancing its power metrics and power management capabilities. While previous…

By Davi Frossard on 2024/04/22

Deploying your application to StarlingX with FluxCD

The article is part of a that guides you through the various ways of deploying a containerized application on top of the StarlingX platform. As a reminder, the methods are the following: methods…

By Daniel Caires on 2024/02/20

Securing Secrets in a StarlingX World

TLS encryption keys, digital certificates, and authorization tokens all depend upon a root of trust. But what happens when that root is rotten? While a “root of trust” sounds impressive, it’s really…

By Luis Huapaya on 2024/01/29

Enabling the Intelligent Edge with StarlingX

The previous wave of digital transformation focused on the cloud and connecting people to information. The next wave will usher in the age of the Machine Economy as the emphasis shifts to machines…

By Warren Bayek on 2024/01/08

Deploying your application to StarlingX

Deploying your own application to StarlingX is as easy as in any other Kubernetes deployment out there. In this blog post I will show you the process with a simple demo app.<!- more -> It's important…

By Bruno Muniz on 2023/11/28

StarlingX at the virtual Project Teams Gathering in October, 2023

Get the highlights of StarlingX discussions and project updates at the virtual event in October, 2023. The StarlingX community had sessions on two consecutive days at the event to discuss use cases…

By Ildiko Vancsa on 2023/11/13

StarlingX - A Simple Approach to Scaling Distributed Clouds

StarlingX has rich orchestration functionalities to scale your deployment from one site to many, this article will give a sneak peek into how it works. As IT workloads move to the network edge, the…

By Ram Subramanian, John Kung on 2023/10/23

StarlingX Sets Its Sights on the Distributed Cloud

Learn more about enhancements that StarlingX contributors are discussing to make the platform more versatile. We often hear the cloud talked about as if it’s a single thing. Moving applications into…

By Matt Peters on 2023/09/18

StarlingX Is Setting the Trend to Go Distributed

StarlingX is in the forefront of the migration trend that takes cloud and turns it into a distributed system on varying scale. In just the last ten years, data centers have undergone a dramatic…

By Jeff Gowan on 2023/08/21

StarlingX Single-Core Platform

Introducing the Single-Core Platform on StarlingX 8.0, for All-In-One (AIO) deployments. The release came out recently with a new feature that allows AIO deployments of StarlingX to run on a single…

By Davi Frossard on 2023/06/27

A Deep Dive Into the Precision Time Protocol Configuration Enhancements

Learn more about the continuously evolving Precision Time Protocol (PTP) support in StarlingX. Precise timing in a system is crucial, especially for use cases such as 5G and industrial automation…

By Cole Walker on 2023/06/05

StarlingX at the virtual Project Teams Gathering in March, 2023 - Part 2

Get the highlights of StarlingX discussions and project updates at the 2023 Spring virtual event. The StarlingX community continued their lively discussions on the second day of the event. The…

By Ildiko Vancsa on 2023/05/08

O-RAN O2 Application in StarlingX

Learn more about O-RAN O2 Application in the StarlingX 8.0 release. The release came out recently with many new features providing new functionality while also increasing compliance to O-RAN…

By Litao Gao on 2023/05/01

StarlingX at the virtual Project Teams Gathering in March, 2023 - Part 1

Get the highlights of StarlingX discussions and project updates at the 2023 Spring virtual event. The StarlingX community had sessions on two consecutive days at the event to discuss use cases, go…

By Ildiko Vancsa on 2023/04/25

StarlingX Subcloud Local Install Enhancements

Learn more about the new feature in StarlingX called Subcloud Local Install. The Distributed Cloud architecture in StarlingX supports a scalable number of geographically distributed systems or in…

By Shrikumar Sharma on 2023/01/30

StarlingX at the virtual Project Teams Gathering in October, 2022

Get the highlights of StarlingX discussions and project updates at the 2022 Fall event. The StarlingX community utilized in the team-collaboration-focused event to discuss current work items…

By Ildiko Vancsa on 2022/12/13

StarlingX at the virtual Project Teams Gathering in April, 2022

Get the highlights of StarlingX discussions and project updates at the recent . The first PTG in 2022 was held on April 4-8 in an online format to provide the opportunity for contributors of the Open…

By Ildiko Vancsa on 2022/04/28

StarlingX Subcloud Rehoming and Distributed Cloud Scalability Enhancements

Learn more about the new features, Subcloud Rehoming and Distributed Cloud Scalability, in StarlingX below. When using a StarlingX-based distributed cloud (DC) system, there were two use-cases that…

By Yuxing Jiang on 2022/04/11

Certificate Lifecycle Management in StarlingX

Learn more about certificate management in the StarlingX 6.0 release. The release came out recently with many new features providing new functionality while also increasing manageability and…

By Sabeel Ansari on 2022/03/01

StarlingX at the virtual Project Teams Gathering in October, 2021

Get the highlights of StarlingX discussions and project updates at the recent . The second PTG in 2021 was held on October 18-22 in an online format to provide the opportunity for contributors of the…

By Ildiko Vancsa on 2021/11/08

Taking timing to the Edge with PTP – Part 3

Learn more about how to configure StarlingX to use it with Precision Time Protocol (PTP). In and we discussed how important PTP (Precision Time Protocol) is for applications that need high…

By Udi Schwager on 2021/07/26

Taking timing to the Edge with PTP – Part 2

Learn more about how to configure StarlingX to use it with Precision Time Protocol (PTP). As we described in the of this series, PTP is a very important part of our increasingly automated and…

By Udi Schwager on 2021/05/17

Taking timing to the Edge with PTP and TSN – Part 1

Learn more about what Precision Time Protocol (PTP) and Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) are and how to use them with StarlingX. Synchronous timing, latency, and accuracy are critical to supporting…

By Ian Jolliffe on 2020/08/24

StarlingX at the virtual Project Teams Gathering

Get the highlights of StarlingX activities at the recent . The StarlingX community participated in the first virtual PTG that was held online on June 1-5. The team spent almost ten hours discussing…

By Ildiko Vancsa on 2020/06/15

Takeaways from the recent StarlingX Contributor Meetup

Check out the main discussion topics from the first StarlingX face to face planning meeting of the year. The StarlingX community decided to hold another contributor meetup based on the success of the…

By Ildiko Vancsa on 2020/03/16

StarlingX community interview - How StarlingX shines in the starry sky of open source projects in China

StarlingX is a pilot project supported by the OpenStack Foundation that was announced in May 2018. The project integrates well-known open source projects including OpenStack, Ceph, Kubernetes, and…

By Sunny Cai on 2020/02/25

Ecosystems Matter - Community Collaboration Between CENGN and StarlingX

Learn about why collaboration is so important and how CENGN is contributing to StarlingX. I recently attended CENGN’s annual conference in Ottawa. They put on a great showcase of how they are enabling…

By Ian Jolliffe on 2019/12/09

StarlingX in Shanghai

Get the highlights of StarlingX activities at the & in Shanghai, November 4-8, 2019. The StarlingX Community participated in the Open Infrastructure Summit & PTG in Shanghai at the beginning of…

By Ildiko Vancsa on 2019/12/02

Securing the Edge with StarlingX

Security on the edge is crucial. Learn more about how the StarlingX 2.0 release helps addressing this challenge. As we drive compute to the edge of the network many things change and become more…

By Ian Jolliffe on 2019/10/19

Takeaways from the first StarlingX Contributor Meetup

Check out the main discussion topics from the first StarlingX face to face planning meeting of the year. As the StarlingX project is still in its infancy, it's crucial to have face time that…

By Ildiko Vancsa on 2019/01/29