OpenStack Services

StarlingX OpenStack delivers a curated set of OpenStack services hardened for carrier-grade and enterprise deployments. Each service is deployed as a containerized Helm application on StarlingX, benefiting from the platform’s high availability, hardware acceleration, and lifecycle management capabilities.

Nova (Compute)

Manages virtual machine lifecycle including creation, scheduling, live migration, and teardown. Enhanced with NUMA pinning, SR-IOV, and huge pages. See OpenStack Compute (Nova).

Neutron (Networking)

Provides software-defined networking with provider networks, VXLAN/VLAN segmentation, dual-stack IPv4/IPv6, QoS, and OVS-DPDK acceleration. See OpenStack Neutron.

Cinder (Block Storage)

Delivers persistent block volumes backed by Ceph or NetApp (FC, iSCSI, NFS), with snapshots, cloning, and QoS support. See OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder).

Glance (Image Service)

Manages the catalog of VM images and snapshots, stored in Ceph by default. See OpenStack Glance.

Keystone (Identity)

Provides RBAC, multi-tenant domain isolation, token-based authentication, and federation with external identity providers (LDAP, Active Directory, OIDC via Dex). See Keystone, the OpenStack Identity Service.

Heat (Orchestration)

Enables infrastructure-as-code using declarative YAML templates to deploy and manage complete application stacks. See OpenStack Heat.

Horizon (Dashboard)

Web-based UI for launching instances, managing networks, and administering the cloud. See Horizon: The OpenStack Dashboard Project.

Telemetry (Optional)

An optional metering and alarming stack (Ceilometer, Aodh and Prometheus) that is disabled by default. Collected metrics are stored in Prometheus, supplied by the StarlingX Prometheus application. Enable via Helm chart overrides. See Telemetry Capabilities for details.