R2.0 Release Notes¶
ISO image¶
You can find a pre-built ISO and Docker images for StarlingX release 2.0 at the StarlingX mirror.
Branch¶
The source code for StarlingX release 2.0 is available in the r/stx.2.0 branch in the StarlingX git repositories.
Deployment¶
A full system install is required to deploy the StarlingX release 2.0. There is no upgrade path from StarlingX release 1.0 (stx.2018.10)
New features and enhancements¶
The main feature in the StarlingX R2.0 release is the re-structuring of the software to provide a containerized OpenStack cloud on top of a bare metal Kubernetes cluster. In R2.0 StarlingX manages the
Dedicated physical servers
Kubernetes services
Containerized OpenStack services
This allows StarlingX to support the hosting of applications in multiple scenarios. For example:
On bare metal servers using OpenStack Ironic
On virtual machines using OpenStack Nova
In containers using Kubernetes
StarlingX 2.0 eliminates patches against upstream OpenStack. The 1.0 release of StarlingX included many patches against OpenStack Pike. The 2.0 release contains about 5 patches against Nova and is otherwise running completely unmodified Stein.
The 5 patches are back ports of the NUMA live migration fixes that were recently accepted into upstream for OpenStack Train. This means that the next release of StarlingX will run completely unmodified OpenStack.
R2.0 feature list and stories¶
The list below provides a detailed list of features with the associated StoryBoard entries for the features.
Kubernetes container platform:
2002843, 2004273, 2004712, 2004642, 2004022, 2003907, 2003909, 2004760, 2005350, 2003908, 2004520, 2005249, 2004763, 2002844, 2005193, 2002840, 2005066, 2004711, 2004762, 2005198, 2004470, 2003087, 2004710, 2004447, 2004007, 2003491, 2002845, 2002841, 2002839
Containerized Openstack services:
2002876, 2003910, 2004751, 2005424, 2004764, 2004433, 2005074
Containerized OVS support as the default virtual switch:
SR-IOV network device plug-in support:
Ansible bootstrap deployment:
Collected integration for platform resource monitoring:
OVS-DPDK integration enhancements:
CentOS upgrade to 7.6:
qemu/libvirt updates:
Ceph upgrade to mimic:
Openstack rebase to Stein:
2004765, 2004583, 2004455, 2004751, 2004765, 2006167, 2005750
StarlingX-specific source patch removal:
2003857, 2004583, 2004600, 2004869, 2004610, 2004607, 2004427, 2004386, 2004312, 2003394, 2003112, 2004455, 2005212, 2004557, 2004477, 2004406, 2004404, 2004216, 2004203, 2004135, 2004133, 2004109, 2004108, 2004020, 2004019, 2003803, 2003767, 2003765, 2003759, 2003758, 2003757
DevStack enablement:
2005285, 2003160, 2003163, 2004370, 2003161, 2003159, 2003126
Miscellaneous build enhancements:
