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.

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