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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
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Attributes | Description | Informational |
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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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