A blueprint family which showcases end-to-end solution for edge services with KubeEdge centered edge stack. The first release will focus on the ML inference offloading use case.
KubeEdge is a CNCF sandbox project widely adopted as a key industry reference Edge Computing architecture. With KubeEdge, application vendors can push a wide range of applications at the edge, including Mobile Edge services. It is an upstream project to Akraino community. There are other Akraino Blueprint projects with KubeEdge incorporated. This project family will focus on solutions centered around KubeEdge. Future releases may incorporate various components, e.g. hardware infrastructure etc.
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Use Case Details
Attributes | Description | Informational |
Type | New | |
Industry Sector | Cloud, Enterprise, Telco | |
Business driver | Edge computing leverages edge locations to distribute application loads among device/edge/cloud. A service layer is required to bridge infrastructure platform and applications. e.g. load distribution coordination, hardware platform agnostic, etc. KubeEdge extends native containerized application orchestration capabilities to hosts at Edge. Along with other vertical domain support such as device twin at edge, KubeEdge edge service stack is geared to offer feature rich support to applications while remain platform neutral. | |
Business use cases | KubeEdge Edge service can be deployed at enterprise edge or as a cloud edge extension interfacing telco network. It offers support for following use cases:
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Business Cost - Initial Build Cost Target Objective | KubeEdge is a software layer. Its managed applications can run on any kubernetes environment. Validated edge stack including hardware choices should have manageable cost suitable for edge deployment. | |
Business Cost – Target Operational Objective | KubeEdge edge service provides service portal for operational management. It supports zero touch deployment and monitoring capabilities. | |
Security need | KubeEdge supports application oriented security SPIFFE spec. | |
Regulations | N/A | |
Other restrictions | N/A | |
Additional details | N/A |
Blueprint Family Details
Use Case Attributes | Description | Informational |
Type | New | |
Blueprint Family | KubeEdge Edge Service | |
Use Case | Telco edge and enterprise edge | |
Blueprint proposed | Central Office deployments • ML inference offloading Customer Premise deployments • ASR at operation field (future proposal) | |
Initial POD Cost (capex) | Less than USD100K | |
Scale | From 1 server to a rack. | |
Applications | Any type of edge services | |
Power Restrictions | Varies | |
Preferred Infrastructure orchestration | OpenStack - VM orchestration Docker/K8 - Container Orchestration OS - Linux VNF Orchestration - ONAP | |
Additional Details | N/A |
Blueprint Details
Case Attributes | Description | Informational |
|---|---|---|
Type | New | |
Blueprint Family | KubeEdge Edge Service | |
Use Case | Facial emotion recognition task offloading to edge node | |
Blueprint proposed Name | ML Inference Offloading | |
Initial POD Cost (capex) | Less than 100KUSD | |
Scale & Type | 1 x86 server With Nvidia Tesla P4/T4 GPUs | |
Applications | Deep learning models（facial expression) offload from mobile device to Edge | |
Power Restrictions | Varies | |
Infrastructure orchestration | Docker 18.09 OS – Ubuntu18.04 Python 3.5 ~3.7 CUDA>10.1 GPU driver release 19.03 | |
PaaS | KubeEdge, Kubernetes | |
SDN | N/A | |
Workload Type | Containers | |
Additional Details | N/A |
Committers
As per the Akraino Community process and directed by TSC, a blueprint which has only one nominee for Project Technical Lead (PTL) will be the elected lead once at least one committer seconds the nomination after the close of nominations. If there are two or more, an election will take place.
Self Nomination began on 23 April 2020 and will continue until 29 April.
Committer | Committer Company | Committer Contact Info | Committer Bio | Committer Picture | Self Nominate for PTL (Y/N) |
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| Jane Shen | Futurewei | jane.shen@futurewei.com | |||
| Yin Ding | Futurewei | yin.ding@futurewei.com | Y | ||
| Tina Tsou | ARM | tina.tsou@arm.com | |||
| Xuan Jia | China Mobile | jiaxuan@chinamobile.com | |||
| Jiafeng Zhu | Futurewei | jiafeng.zhu@futurewei.com | |||
| Hanyu Ding | China Mobile | dinghanyu@chinamobile.com | |||
| Jeff Brower | Signalogic | jbrower@signalogic.com | |||
| Cindy Xing | Microsoft | cixing@microsoft.com | |||
| Hao Xu | Futurewei | hxu1@futurewei.com |
Contributors
Contributor | Contributor Company | Contributor Contact Info | Contributor Bio | Contributor Picture |
May Chen | ||||
Akraino KubeEdge Edge Service Blueprint.pptx