General StarlingX Architecture Documents
- please refer to https://www.starlingx.io/learn/ and https://www.starlingx.io/collateral/StarlingX-Onboarding-Deck-for-Web-February-2019.pdf.
Distributed Cloud Topology
- Central Cloud Region
- Hosting Shared Services
- System-wide Infrastructure Orchestration functions:
- Deployment and Management of Edge Clouds
- Configuration portal for shared configuration across
all Edge Clouds - Fault aggregation across all Edge Clouds
- Patching orchestration across all Edge Clouds
- Remote Cloud Regions
- Geographically dispersed
- Scalable from 1 to 1000s of Servers
- Connected via L3 IP Network
- Running reduced Control Plane
- Inter-Region Communications strictly REST APIs / L3.
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Common Software Stack
- Zero Touch Provisioning
- StarlingX based
- Containers and VM application deployment
- Small infrastructure foot print for far edge deployments
- Distributed cloud
- Duplex far edge sites
