The OpenStack Foundation, in partnership with Wind River and Intel, has released a new open-source edge computing platform aimed at, among others, low-latency Internet of Things (IoT) applications: StarlingX.

“When it comes to edge, it is crucial to be able to blend together and manage all the virtual machine and container-based workloads and underlying bare metal environment,” claims OpenStack Foundation Jonathan Bryce of the project, which was founded back in May and has this week issued its first public release. “This is exactly what you get with StarlingX.”

“Intel is proud of our contributions to StarlingX and work to build a resilient cloud infrastructure for edge, industrial Internet of Things (IoT) and telecom applications,” adds Intel Open Source Technology Centre general manager Imad Sousou. “Today marks a major milestone with the release of the full StarlingX software package. Congratulations to everyone involved for delivering an open, distributed Edge solution that supports high-availability and ultra-low-latency.”

Among the use cases targeted by StarlingX are ultra-low-latency industrial IoT efforts including automation, cloud radio access network (RAN), and smart city metering and monitoring, along with multi-access edge computing efforts in the augmented and virtual reality (AR and VR) spaces, high-definition video content delivery, small cell service provision, and universal customer premise applications. The project has already attracted 84 contributors who have issued 1,329 commits to the codebase for its first release.

More information is available on the official website, while the source code – published under the Apache Licence Version 2.0, is available on the project’s Git repository.