Open Infrastructure Foundation kondigt StarlingX 6.0 aan

StarlingX – het open source edge computing en IoT cloud platform speciaal ontwik­keld voor low-latency en high-perfor­mance appli­ca­ties – is beschik­baar in release 6.0. StarlingX combi­neert Ceph, OpenStack, Kuber­netes en meer om een full-featured cloud software stack te creëren die alles biedt wat nodig is voor een edge cloud.

Nieuwe functies in StarlingX 6.0

• Upgrade van het core besturingssysteem
• Security verbe­te­ringen, waaronder geau­to­ma­ti­seerd certi­fi­caat­be­heer en alarmen 
• Diverse nieuwe tools om imple­men­tatie en confi­gu­ratie eenvou­diger te beheren

Open Infra­struc­ture Foun­da­tion heeft verder deze Engels­ta­lige infor­matie vrij­ge­geven:

Key Features of StarlingX 6.0:  to further support the low-latency and distri­buted cloud requi­re­ments of edge computing and indu­strial IoT use cases, the community prio­ri­tized these features in StarlingX 6.0:

• Operating System Upgrade:  StarlingX 6.0 features an upgrade to Linux kernel version 5.10, which, among other things, provides the user space tooling to configure routing and forwar­ding interfaces.
  
• Security Enhan­ce­ments: Mana­ge­ment of certi­fi­cates is critical to security but can become a main­tenance burden. In StarlingX 6.0, platform services can now simplify the mana­ge­ment (e.g., auto-renewals) of certi­fi­cates using cert-manager and update the Kuber­netes Root CA (certi­fi­cate authority) on a running system, with either an uploaded certi­fi­cate or an auto-generated certi­fi­cate. 
  
  StarlingX 6.0 also includes audit support. The Linux Auditing System helps system admi­ni­stra­tors track security violation events based on precon­fi­gured audit rules. The events are recorded in a log file and the infor­ma­tion in the log entries helps to detect misuse or unau­tho­rized acti­vi­ties. The Linux Audit daemon, **auditd**, is the main component of the Linux Auditing System, and is respon­sible for writing the audit logs.
  
  In addition, StarlingX 6.0 features alarm support for expiring and expired certi­fi­cates, which may prevent the proper operation of platform and appli­ca­tions running on the platform.
  
• Deploy­ment and Re-confi­gu­ra­tion Impro­ve­ments: A new feature of StarlingX 6.0 is that you can migrate from one subcloud to another without rein­stal­la­tion. Similarly, in a disaster recovery scenario, you can now move subclouds from one distri­buted cloud system to another while the current system controller is rein­stalled. Another use case for the subcloud rehoming process is to conso­li­date a deploy­ment and shut down some edge sites when they are not utilized. Further­more, the 6.0 version of StarlingX supports the local instal­la­tion of subclouds, when the servers at the site support Redfish.