Summary
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Summary
Enterprise Application on Lightweight 5G Telco Edge (EALTEdge) Blueprint focuses on giving a complete ecosystem and platform for Telco-Edge solution. The overall architecture abides to the ETSI Recommended MEC Platform, in addition given some more components as added on Service. The EALT Blueprint also focuses to give a Lightweight 5G Telco Edge which can be deployed on resource constraints hardware going.is a blueprint under 5G/MEC system blueprint family. It intends to provide a edge computing platform along with application orchestration & management to host enterprise applications on lightweight 5G Telco Edge. BP also intend to provide platform for enterprise application developers to develop, test, package & onboard their applications easily & quickly, thereby empowering developers to innovate & ship faster. Also eventually BP aims to provide platform capabilities and features for "MEC in an Enterprise Setting"
This release focus has been majorly to add following main components/features
- Application orchestration with support for Multi Tenancy
- Platform for Application Developer for faster development, test, packaging and onboarding
- Application repository to launch applications.
- Platform components & application for ROBO use case
- Add platform features like DNS, LB, Network Isolation.
Release Scope
The edge computing platform(s) (MEP) needs to be installed at the telco edge(s) and Application development/management related components (MECM (MEO+MEPM), AppStore, Developer Platform) needs to be installed in Telco's cloud (private/public). Edge computing platform (MEP) provides a platform as a service environment for running "Enterprise Applications"
In order to be useful in this release, BP requires following pre-requisites:
- 5G RAN & UPF to enable connectivity & have configurations based on use case need.
- Also 5Gc and OSS system needs to be in place with desired configurations.
- Additionally need following configuration on UPF
- DNS Redirection rules (for redirection to DNS server hosted on BP's Edge Platform)
- Traffic rules to enable communication with Enterprise application hosted on Edge Platform.
Note:
- 5G RAN, UPF, 5Gc, OSS are not in scope of BP.
- In order to test this BP functionality in LAB environment a 3 node setup with Traffic generator (or any IP based UE) direct connection with Edge Platform would be sufficient and same is done in BP validation Lab (R4 - Test Documentation of Enterprise Applications on Lightweight 5G Telco Edge (EALTEdge))
What is released
Components of the release (Akraino new)
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- Ansible-playbook based single command for EALT EALTEdge environment installation.
- Command Line Interface for installation of various components of EALT EALTEdge Platform.
CENTER Node Components
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- MEP Agent
- MEP Server
- Applcm (MEPM)
Note: For details, please refer to Architecture Document (R4 - Architecture Documentation of Enterprise Applications on Lightweight 5G Telco Edge (EALTEdge)#PlatformArchitecture)
Dependencies of the release (Upstream Projects, Patches)
| S. No | Software | Version | Remarks | |||
| 1. | Edge Gallery | 0.9 | ||||
| 2. | Kubespray | 2.14. | 132 | |||
| 23. | Docker | 1819.0603+ | ||||
| 34. | Kubernetes | 1 v1.17. 162 | ||||
| 45. | K3S | 1.1819.24+ | ||||
| 56. | Helm | 3.0.2 | ||||
| 67. | Grafana | 8-7.661.01 | ||||
| 78. | Calico | 3.14.0 | 8. | PostgresSQL | 9.616.5 | |
| 9. | RabbitMQ | 3.7 | ||||
| 10. | Prometheus | 9.3.1 | ||||
11. | KongVault | 10.5.10 | ||||
| 12.Vault | Cert-Manager | 0.515.0 | ||||
| 13 | .Cert-Manager | OpenEBS | 02. | 153.0 | ||
| 14 | Edge Gallery | 0.9. | Velero | 1.5.2 | ||
| 15. | InfluxDB | 2.0 |
Upgrade Procedures
Not Applicable
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# | Name | Category | Description | |
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| 1. | Lightweight MEC | Platform | Lightweight MEC solution including Edge (MEC Host) & Platform Manager (MEPM) | |
| 2. | OCD | Deployment Tool | One click deployment of manager Center & multiple edgesedge nodes | |
| 3. | Mutli-Arch and Multi-OS Support | Platform | Heterogeneous deployment with support of Multi-Arch & Multi OS. | |
| 4. | Bootstrap Script | Platform Feature | Installation scripts for EALT Platform | |
| 5.Unified CLI | Secret and Certificate Management. | Platform FeatureUnified CLI for deployment as well as workload LCM | Cloud Native Secret and Certificate Generation and Management | |
| 6. | APPLCMEdge Gallery and services | Platform | FeatureIt handles the application Life cycle management of Applications which are being deployed on MEP. Like : Application Onboarding, Instantiation , Start/Stop etc.feature | MEP, MECM (MEO + MEPM), Appstore and Developer platform features from Edge Gallery |
| 7. | Service RegistryLight weight Storage | Platform Feature | It is used by applications to discover and locate the end-points for the services they require, and to publish their own service end-point for other applications to use. | |
| 8. | API Gateway | Platform Feature | Single point entry for MEP services. | |
| 9. | Secret and Certificate Management. | Platform Feature | Cloud Native Secret and Certificate Generation and Management |
Version change
| EALTEDGE uses Open-Ebs for storage. It is a Kubernetes native hyperconverged lightweight storage solution. | |||
| 8. | Backup and Restore | Platform Feature | EALTEdge uses Velero - An open source tool to safely backup and restore, perform disaster recovery, and migrate Kubernetes cluster resources and persistent volumes |
| 9. | Common DB | Platform Feature | Time Series Database (InfluxDB) |
| 10. | Network Isolation | Platform Feature | Provides separation of control, management and data plan |
| 11. | DNS | Platform Feature | DNS server provided by platform |
| 12. | Load Balancer | Platform Feature | MetalLB for LB |
Version change
2.0.0
Module version changes
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Version No. | Date | Author | Rationale |
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| 0.1 | 2604-NovDec-2020 | EALTEdge Blueprint Team | First Draft |
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Documentation Deliverable
R4 - API Documentation Enterprise Application on Lightweight 5G Telco Edge (EALTEdge)
R4 - Architecture Documentation of Enterprise Applications on Lightweight 5G Telco Edge (EALTEdge)
R4 - Installation Documentation of Enterprise Applications on Lightweight 5G Telco Edge (EALTEdge)
R4 - Release Notes of Enterprise Applications on Lightweight 5G Telco Edge EALTEdge
R4 - Test Documentation of Enterprise Applications on Lightweight 5G Telco Edge (EALTEdge)
Fixed Issues and Bugs
Not Applicable
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