Open Source Summit Europe 2022

During the past decade cloud computing outgrew the walls of traditional large data centers and started to take over the edge. This technology evolution opened up endless opportunities to create new applications along with better utilizing hardware resources that are closer to the end users. These new opportunities also brought in new challenges, such as complexity, and put well-known ones, like interoperability, back into the spotlight. End-to-end edge infrastructures often grow to a massive scale in a geographically distributed fashion, which results in innovative, but complex solutions that requires high level of automation to handle. Along with the high demands in the software space, hardware solutions are also becoming more diverse that the software layer has to seamlessly support from the core out to the edge. This talk will use current and upcoming use cases to describe the challenges of building and operating infrastructure from core to edge. It will also introduce an open source edge cloud solution, StarlingX, that is already running in production around the globe. The presentation will show how the project is addressing the needs of geographically distributed systems on a large scale.