[Starlingx-discuss] User feedback and questions

[Bruno Drugowick Muniz]

Hi, Ildikó and StarlingX Community.

I'll add my 2 cents regarding their feedback.

>    - 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?

Regarding the above, the Docs team recently discussed a problem with the Virtual guides being outdated when compared to the bare metal guides. If someone was following the Virtual guides, it could partially account for their confusion. This problem is being tracked as a bug and it's actively being discussed in the Docs team meetings. While I don't represent the Docs team, I participated in the discussion, and I'm assigned to this bug while awaiting the resolution of other blocking factors. The bug in question can be found here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/starlingx/+bug/2028272.

Therefore, even though there might be additional problems not covered by this bug, addressing the concern with the Virtual guides is indeed part of the community's plan.

Regarding the query below:

>    + 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.

I'm not sure I fully understand what exactly they meant by "automate the creation of networks for the platform". Could we gather more specific details on this?

Regards,
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Bruno.

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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






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