R4 - Release Notes of Enterprise Applications on Lightweight 5G Telco Edge (EALTEdge)

Summary

This release of Enterprise Applications 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.

What is released

Components of the release (Akraino new)

As part of this release EALTEdge blueprint released below mentioned components:

OCD (One Click Deployment) Node Components

Ansible-playbook based single command for EALT environment installation.
Command Line Interface for installation of various components of EALT Platform.

CENTER Node Components

MECM
Appstore
Developer Platform

EDGE Node Components

MEP Agent
MEP Server
Applcm

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	2.13
3.	Docker	19.03.14
4.	Kubernetes	v1.17.2
5.	K3S	1.19.4+
6.	Helm	3.0.2
7.	Grafana	8-7.66.0
8.	Calico	3.14.0
9.	RabbitMQ	3.7
10.	Prometheus	9.3.1
11.	Vault	0.5.0
12.	Cert-Manager	0.15.0
13	OpenEBS	2.3.0
14.	Velero	1.5.2
15.	InfluxDB	2.0

Upgrade Procedures

Not Applicable

Release Data

Enhancements

Not Applicable

Functionality changes

Not Applicable

Upstream Software Version Changes

Not Applicable

Features

#	Name	Category	Description
1.	Lightweight MEC	Platform	Lightweight MEC solution including Edge (MEC Host) & Platform Manager (MEPM)
2.	OCD	Deployment Tool	One click deployment of Center & multiple edge 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	Platform Feature	Unified CLI for deployment as well as workload LCM
6.	Secret and Certificate Management.	Platform Feature	Cloud Native Secret and Certificate Generation and Management
7	Edge Gallery and services	Platform feature	MEP, MECM (MEO + MEPM), Appstore and Developer platform features from Edge Gallery
8	Storage	Platform Feature	EALTEDGE uses Open-Ebs for storage. It is a Kubernetes native hyperconverged storage solution
9	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
10.	Common DB	Platform Feature	Time Series Database (InfluxDB)