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Blueprint Overview/Introduction
Designing and building edge services is made more difficult by the need to combine many different devices, infrastructure resources, infrastructure services and applications, often with their own complex dependencies and interrelationships. It is not easy for players in a particular technology or service area to acquire and maintain the necessary expertise to design and build edge services, especially as the landscape rapidly changes around them. Even so, many companies want to expand and develop their businesses by providing edge services based on their strengths in specific product and service fields.
The objective of the Edge Service Enabling Platform Blueprint is to make it possible for a community of device and resource providers and edge service designers and maintainers to cooperate to make the design and implementation of edge services easier, without requiring deeply specialized knowledge of every component that goes into the services. The intent is to provide a framework for the creation of libraries which encapsulate the knowledge required to deploy specific devices and resources, and catalogs which capture the design of edge services by combining these libraries. The intent is to make it possible for an edge service provider to select an appropriate catalog and, with a minimum of configuration, deploy it directly into their target environment.
The diagram below shows how edge service catalogs encapsulate the specialized knowledge of various device, application, and service providers into a package which can be deployed in the field with minimal configuration. This benefits both the person deploying the service, by reducing the cost and effort required to design and deploy the service, and the device and infrastructure suppliers, who will see greater use of their devices and infrastructure because of the reduced friction in using them.
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Use Cases
Below are some sample use cases which could benefit from the approaches implemented in this blueprint.
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