Hi StarlingX Community, I’m reaching out to share some aggregated data from the StarlingX User Survey. The below data contains results that were submitted in 2023. * Survey respondents are in different phases of evaluation: ‘Interested’, ’Testing’ and ‘Proof of Concept’ * 64% of the use cases are in the Telecom industry (uCPE, MEC, 5G, etc) * 72% of the deployment types is bare metal, while the remaining 28% chose the combination option * The percentage of respondents who are deploying Distributed Cloud grew to 82% * Deployment configuration - 54% of the responses contained Simplex - 54% of the responses contained Standard multi-server - 36% of the responses contained Duplex * 100% of the respondents said that they will be deploying a full, containerized OpenStack cloud (stx-openstack) as part of your StarlingX environment. 64% responded with ‘Yes’ and 36% responded with ‘Planning to’. * Top performing storage options - CEPH 54% - NetApp 18% * Acceleration & performance, most picked options - 54% listed 'Dedicated CPUs' - 45% listed 'Isolated CPUs' - 45% listed ‘PTP" - 18% listed 'Intel QAT' * Services and protocols - 36% listed 'Metrics server' - 36% listed 'SNMP' - 36% listed ‘OIDC’ - 27% listed ‘Kata Containers' - 27% listed ‘Cert Manager' - 27% listed ‘ISTIO' - 27% listed ‘Vault' - 27% listed ‘Auditd' - 18% listed ‘Portieris' * Docs average scores are down from ~8.25 - Usage score is 6.3 out of 10 - Readability score is 7.0 out of 10 - Complete descriptions score is 6.4 out of 10 - Easy to navigate score is 6.6 out of 10 * Net Promoter Score (NPS): 8.0 The main feedback that users shared was that they would like to have clearer documentation that describes the virtual setup, since they had continued issues with having a successful deployment. Users would also like to have more documentation available that describes a recommended network setup for the platform, once it’s deployed. As a reminder, the new user survey is available here: https://openinfrafoundation.formstack.com/forms/starlingx_user_survey Please help share the link within you ecosystem, so we can gather more information from people and organizations who’re using or evaluating StarlingX. Thanks and Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation