Overview
The family’s 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.
This blueprint targets small footprint deployments able to host NFV (in particular vRAN) and MEC (e.g. AR/VR, machine learning, etc.) use casesworkloads. Its key features are:
- 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.
- Support for real-time workloads using CentOS-rt*.
Architecture
Resource Requirements
Documentation
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Deployments to AWS
| nodes | instance type |
|---|---|
| 1x bootstrap (temporary) | EC2: m4.xlarge, EBS: 120GB GP2 |
| 3x masters | EC2: m4.xlarge, EBS: 120GB GP2 |
| 3x workers | EC2: m4.large, EBS: 120GB GP2 |
Deployments to Bare Metal
| nodes | requirements |
|---|---|
| 1x provisioning host (temporary) | 12 cores, 16GB RAM, 200GB disk free, 3 NICs (1 internet connectivity, 1 provisioning+storage, 1 cluster) |
| 3x masters | 12 cores, 16GB RAM, 200GB disk free, 2 NICs (1 provisioning+storage, 1 cluster) |
| 3x workers | 12 cores, min. 16GB RAM, 200GB disk free, 2 SR/IOV-capable NICs (1 provisioning+storage, 1 cluster) |
Deployments to libvirt
| nodes | requirements |
|---|---|
| 1x bootstrap (temporary) | 2 vCPUs, 4GB RAM, 2GB (sparse) |
| 3x masters | 2 vCPUs, 4GB RAM, 2GB (sparse) |
| 3x workers | 2 vCPUs, 4GB RAM, 2GB (sparse) |
Documentation
See KNI Blueprint User Documentation.
Project Team
Member | Company | Contact | Role | Photo & Bio |
| 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 | Intel | Committer | ||
| Manjari Asawa | Wipro | Manjari Asawa <manjari.asawa@wipro.com> | Committer | |
| Mikko Ylinen | Intel | Committer | ||
| Ned Smith | Intel | Committer | ||
| Ricardo Noriega | Red Hat | Ricardo Noriega | Committer | Red Hat NFVPE - CTO office - Networking |
Sukhdedv Kapur | Juniper | Committer | Distinguished Engineer; Contrail Software - CTO Org | |
| Yolanda Robla | Red Hat | Yolanda Robla Mota | PTL, Committer | Red Hat NFVPE - Edge, baremetal provisioning |
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