The LF Energy SEAPATH community gathered at LF Energy Summit in Brussels on September 5 and 6, 2024, for a meetup hosted by Eloi Bail of Savoir-faire Linux. SEAPATH aims to develop a “reference design” and “industrial grade” open source real-time platform that can run virtualized automation and protection applications for power substations and other use cases. Organizations represented at the meetup included Belden, GE Vernova, RedHat, RTE, Savoir-faire Linux, and Welotec.
Eloi engaged with meetup attendees to understand:
- Which features of SEAPATH are most valued by the community?
- What are the next challenges to be addressed?
- What features would the community like to see more of in SEAPATH?
Feedback gathered from the SEAPATH community during the meetup included:
- Positivity around the fact that SEAPATH is open source and highly adaptable.
- Appreciation of the fact that Ansible is used to automate and reproduce configuration steps.
- The SEAPATH community would also like to release a first official version of SEAPATH around which a production release and support offers can be created.
Based on the feedback at the meetup, the SEAPATH maintainers will take the following steps:
- Pursue a POC to merge the git branches used for different SEAPATH versions.
- Align a common version of Ceph.
Once this work has been completed and tested, the community will evaluate the effort involved in switching to Ceph-Adm and decide whether or not to include it in the first official release of SEAPATH, which will be unveiled by the end of 2024.
To learn more about SEAPATH and get involved in the community, visit https://lfenergy.org/projects/seapath/.
