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Type

New

Blueprint Family - Proposed Name

Kubernetes-Native Infrastructure for Edge (KNI-Edge)

Use Case

Blueprint - Proposed Name

Provider Access Edge (PAE)

Initial POD Cost (CAPEX)

less than $150k (TBC)

Scale & Type

3 to 7 x86 servers (Xeon class)

Applications

vRAN (RIC), MEC apps (CDN, AI/ML, …)

Power Restrictions

less than 10kW (TBC)

Infrastructure orchestration

End-to-end Service Orchestration: ONAP
Middlewares: Kubeflow (AI/ML), NEV SDK (TBC)
App Lifecycle Management: Kubernetes Operators (mix of Helm and native)
Cluster Lifecycle Management: Kubernetes Cluster API/Controller
Cluster Monitoring: Prometheus
Container Platform: Kubernetes (OKD 4.0)
Container Runtime: CRI-O
VM Runtime: KubeVirt
OS: CentOS/CentOS-rt 7.6

SDN

Tungsten Fabric OpenShift SDN (w/ SR-IOV, DPDK, and multi-i/f); leaf-and-spine fabric mgmt.

Workload Type

containers, VMs

Additional Details