Introduction

In Akraino's R1 release the Network Cloud (NC) family provides for the automated deployment of three different types of edge pod:

• Rover
• Unicycle with an OVS-DPDK data plane for guest VMs
• Unicycle with a SR-IOV data plane for guest VMs

The deployment process is based on a two tier hierarchical model incorporating a Regional Controller (RC) which is responsible for the deployment of any number of independent Rover and/or Unicycle pods at one or multiple edge locations within its region of control. In a large geographic deployment multiple RCs would be deployed to subdivide into a multi-region deployment.

Servers

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This section describes the physical nodes used to support NC blueprints.

Servers

Build Server 

The Build Server node is built using a pre-provisioned VM. Full details are contained in the Validation Labs section of the NC's R1 documentation.

Regional Controller Node

The Regional Controller (RC) node may be built using either a bare metal server or in a pre-provisioned VM. Full details of the servers server and VM deployment options are contained in the Validation Labs section of the NC's R1 documentation.

Rover Pods

Rover edge pods consists of a single node deployed on a bare metal server. Full details of the servers server are contained in the Validation Labs section of the NC's R1 documentation.

Unicycle Pods

Unicycle edge pods consists of 3 to 7 nodes deployed on bare metal servers consisting 3 controller nodes (1 genesis and 2 master nodes) and 0 to 4 worker nodes. Full details of the servers are contained in the Validation Labs section of the NC's R1 documentation.

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