The OpenInfra Foundation‘s StarlingX 9.0 release introduces new features while also streamlining the upgrade processes for greater efficiency. In this episode of TFiR: Let’s Talk recorded at the Open Source Summit in Seattle, Ildiko Vancsa, Director of Community at OpenInfra, discusses the new release, the challenges companies face with upgrading major releases, and the future focuses for the StarlingX project. She says, “StarlingX has now reached that mature phase where the community can focus on really fine-tuning the platform.”

New developments at the OpenInfra Foundation, focusing on the StarlingX 9.0 release

• Vancsa talks about new developments at the OpenInfra Foundation. She mentions recent releases, including OpenStack’s 29th release, Caracal and StarlingX 9.0, highlighting her excitement as a community manager for StarlingX.
• Vancsa discusses the core projects at the OpenInfra Foundation. She emphasizes the critical role of OpenStack, StarlingX, and Kata Containers in modern infrastructure, highlighting their unique features and security benefits.
• Vancsa explains how the foundation adapts to current tech trends. She shares an anecdote about StarlingX’s ease of use and its potential to quickly build clouds, enabling more focus on workloads and use cases.
• New features in the StarlingX 9.0 release include improvements in power management, geo-redundancy, and enhanced precision time protocol. Vancsa emphasizes the platform’s maturity and critical role for telecom operators, such as Vodafone, Verizon, and T-Systems, who are using it for 5G workloads.

Challenges of upgrading major releases and StarlingX’s focuses for the future

• Vancsa explains the industry’s complexities in lifecycle management and highlights the skip-level upgrade feature in OpenStack to address slow upgrade cycles.
• Infrastructure as code and declarative management can help address the challenges of upgrading major releases, but companies must work together to address the issue.
• StarlingX’s goals for the future following the StarlingX 9.0 release focus on scalability, hardware diversity, IPv4/IPv6 dual stack support, and further unification of service management and APIs.

Guest: Ildiko Vancsa (LinkedIn)
Foundation: OpenInfra Foundation (Twitter)
Show: Let’s Talk 

This summary was written by Emily Nicholls.