Zuul 5.0 and StarlingX 6.0, The OpenInfra Summit, project updates, and more!

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More OpenInfra Code!

This month marks two significant releases for OpenInfra projects, StarlingX and Zuul. Congratulations to the contributors who continue to build the software that organizations around the world run in production.

The 6.0 release of StarlingX is now available with key features and enhancements the community added during the release cycle. The open source edge computing and IoT cloud platform is optimized for low-latency and high-performance applications. It combines Ceph, OpenStack, Kubernetes and more to create a full-featured cloud software stack that provides everything telecom carriers and enterprises need to deploy an edge cloud on just a few servers or hundreds of them.

Production users of the software in production include T-Systemes, Verizon and Vodafone. The StarlingX community is actively collaborating with several other groups such as the OpenInfra Edge Computing Group, ONAP, Akraino and more.

New features in StarlingX 6.0 include:

  • Core operating system upgrade
  • Security enhancements, including automated certificate management and alarms
  • Several new tools to manage deployment and configuration more easily

Check Out The StarlingX 6.0 Code

The Zuul community announced the version 5.0 release of its open source continuous integration (CI) project gating software designed to help developers stop merging broken code. Zuul, a project supported by the Open Infrastructure Foundation, uses project gating to automate continuous integration, delivery and deployment of interrelated software projects in a secure manner.

Numerous case studies have been published highlighting how organizations like BMW, GoDaddy, Software Factory, Packet Host, Leboncoin, and even the Open Infrastructure Foundation communities run Zuul.

New features in Zuul 5.0 include:

  • Every component is scalable and highly-available
  • Augmented Web UI for administrators
  • New and improved drivers
  • Focus on running in containers

Download Zuul 5.0

OpenInfra Foundation news

The OpenInfra Summit

Airship: Elevate your infrastructure

  • The 2021 Annual report for Airship is now available on the project’s blog! It contains highlights from the past year to show the project and the community evolved in 2021.
  • Running or evaluating Airship? We want to hear from you! Take the brief User Survey to provide the community with feedback.

Kata Containers: The speed of containers, the security of VMs

  • In 2021, the Kata Containers community expanded Kata Containers’ usage scenario from security isolation to also cover performance isolation. Check out what the community has achieved in 2021 on the Kata Containers Annual Report!
  • There are many use cases that necessitate the need for encrypted container images when working with confidential containers. Learn what the community has been doing under the Confidential-Containers (CoCo) project to provide this functionality and current challenges on the Kata Containers Blog.
  • Running or evaluating Kata Containers? We want to hear from you! Take the brief User Survey to provide the community with feedback.

OpenDev: Open Source Software Development at Scale

OpenInfra Labs: Connecting open source projects to production

  • The Telemetry Working Group convened for their first monthly videoconference meeting of 2022 on January 18, where the draft governance for Operate First (Op1st) was reviewed in detail. Keep an eye on their playlist for the recording, which should be available soon. The next meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, February 15 at 14:30 UTC (9:30 AM EST), and everyone is invited as always.

OpenStack: Open source software for creating private and public clouds

  • OpenStack’s Technical Committee has decoupled the community goals from the release cycle. This means that they can have target dates for goals that stretch longer than a single release as there are many initiatives that require more than a six month period to complete them. The two currently active community goals are focusing on the migration from oslo.rootwrap to oslo.privsep and implementing consistent and secure default RBAC across all services. For more information on this, check out the summary on the mailing list.
  • OpenStack welcomes its newest service: Skyline! Skyline is a OpenStack dashboard, similar to Horizon, but written in React. While not ready for production use yet, the team invites you to check out their tech preview video and get involved in the future of the dashboard and give feedback while they work on achieving parity with all existing functions of Horizon.

StarlingX: A fully featured cloud for the distributed edge

  • The 2021 Annual report for StarlingX is now available on the project’s blog! You can read a summary about enhancements and achievements that the community made during the past year.
  • If you are running or evaluating StarlingX please fill out a short survey and help the community better understand how the platform is used.

Zuul: Stop merging broken code

Meet The Organizations Supporting the OpenInfra Foundation

  • The Open Infrastructure Foundation thanks all its members for their ongoing support of the OpenInfra community. Check out the OpenInfra Foundation blog to learn how these organizations are helping open source communities build the tools infrastructure operators need for Data Center Clouds, 5G, Edge, Containers, CI/CD and beyond!
  • This month we are highlighting OpenInfra Platinum member: Microsoft, OpenInfra Gold member: City Network, and OpenInfra Silver member: Acme Gating. Thank you for your support! 

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