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The Provider Access Edge blueprint is part of Akraino's Kubernetes-Native Infrastructure family of blueprints. As such, it leverages the best-practices and tools from the Kubernetes community to declaratively manage edge computing stacks at scale and with a consistent, uniform user experience from the infrastructure up to the services and from developer environments to production environments on bare metal or on public cloud.
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- Lightweight, self-managing clusters based on CoreOS and Kubernetes (OKD distro).
- Support for VMs (via KubeVirt) and containers on a common infrastructure.
- Application lifecycle management using the Operator Framework.
- Support for multiple networks using Multus, including fast dataplane like SRIOV, DPDK.
- Support for real-time workloads using CentOS-rt*.
High performance optimizations (hugepages, CPU topology management, etc.)
Documentation
KNI Blueprint User Documentation.
Project Team
PTL Self Nomination is open until noon, 10 June 2020 (Pacific Time)
Member | Company | Contact | Role | Photo & Bio | PTL Self Nomination (y/n) |
| Andrew Bays | Red Hat | Committer | |||
Frank Zdarsky | Red Hat | Committer | Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat Office of the CTO; Edge Computing and |
Jennifer Koerv
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| Ricardo Noriega | Red Hat | Ricardo Noriega De Soto | Committer | Red Hat NFVPE - CTO office - Networking | Y |
Sukhdedv Kapur | Juniper | Committer | Distinguished Engineer; Contrail Software - CTO Org | ||
| Yolanda Robla | Red Hat | Yolanda Robla Mota |
| Committer | Red Hat NFVPE - Edge, baremetal provisioning |
| Arm | Contributor | ||||
| Abhinivesh Jain | Wipro | abhinivesh.jain@wipro.com | Committer | ||
| Sheetal | Red Hat | Sheetal Chetan Singala | Committer |
Use Case Template
Attributes | Description | Informational |
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Type | New | |
Industry Sector | Telco and carrier networks | |
Business Driver | The need for deploying mobile application on the edge is growing in latest times. Providing a platform that is capable of supporting deployment of mobile applications, using Kubernetes, and based on kubernetes tooling and declarative configuration from end to end is needed. | |
Business Use Cases | Edge deployments for 5G, mobile edge applications, vRAN | |
Business Cost - Initial Build Cost Target Objective | It can be deployed on libvirt, amazon and baremetal. Deployment on baremetal requires a small footprint POD with just 5 servers (1 bootstrap, 3 masters, 1 worker) | |
Business Cost – Target Operational Objective | The POD footprint starts being the same (5 servers), depending on the use case. Typically the cost will be less than $100k | |
Security Need | Kubernetes security monitoring and patching capabilities will be required, they are part of the deployment itself | |
Regulations | It will depend on the use case, and the workloads applied on top | |
Other Restrictions | - | |
Additional Details | - |
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Attributes | Description | Informational |
|---|---|---|
Type | New | |
Blueprint Family - Proposed Name | Kubernetes-Native Infrastructure for Edge (KNI-Edge) | |
Use Case | Provider Access Edge (PAE) | |
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 | App Lifecycle Management: Kubernetes Operators | |
SDN | OpenShift SDN (w/ SR-IOV, DPDK, and multi-i/f) | |
| SDS | Ceph | |
Workload Type | containers, VMs | |
Additional Details | - |
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