[Starlingx-discuss] User feedback and questions

[Ildiko Vancsa]

Hi StarlingX Community,

I’m reaching out to share some information with you from a call I had with a potential new user.

* Industry area, use cases and requirements
  - The company is in the telecom industry, the person I talked to has been in the area of research
  - StarlingX use cases
    + Primarily private wireless and 5G core
    + Later on potential use cases might include AI, healthcare and more
  - They are currently prioritizing containerized workloads and later on will be looking into deploying OpenStack as well

* Evaluation status
  - Early stages, they deployed StarlingX, both simplex and duplex, in virtual environments
  - Looking into bare metal deployment as well

* Feedback and questions so far
  - As they have been looking into the platform, they didn’t seem to be able to find the level of multi-tenancy that they needed
    + Does the platform support multiple tenants within one Kubernetes cluster and one StarlingX instance? Is there any documentation that describes the available tenant and user configurations within StarlingX?

  - The networking setup has been hard to figure out for StarlingX, they found that it's not very well documented.
    + Is it in the roadmap to document the networking setup for StarlingX with more details?
    + Would it be possible to automate the creation of networks for the platform? Especially for the virtual deployment option, since that is most commonly deployed by new users, who are evaluating the platform.

  - They had an intern who was working on deploying the platform and has been using the community’s communication channels, including IRC. The intern had a hard time getting responses to their questions, which made it harder to figure out how to overcome the deployment challenges.


Best Regards,
Ildikó

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Ildikó Váncsa
Director of Community
Open Infrastructure Foundation