Table of Contents
Introduction
The guide covers the installation details which are related to Enterprise Applications on Lightweight 5G Telco Edge (EALTEdge) Blueprint.
This guide covers detailed information of the various types of deployments, detailed steps and what are the various components it will install. In addition, the guide provides information on hardware requirements, prerequisite software and minimum hardware requirements. On successful deployment, Center and Edge Nodes will be installed. The number of nodes in Center cluster and Edge node in the cluster is configurable.
The CENTER Node is a K8s Cluster and EDGE Node is a K3s Cluster.
How to use this document
The document includes details of prerequisites /pre-installation, installation and uninstalls steps.
The prerequisites and pre-installation software and hardware should be ready before executing the installation steps.
In BP first release Two types of installation mechanisms are provided, as below
- Ansible-Playbook single command
- Command Line Interface (CLI)
Deployment Architecture
The Deployment Architecture consists of the following nodes
- One-Click Deployment Node
- Center Node
- Edge Node
Note: For Development environment two nodes is sufficient, where one node plays a dual role of One-Click Deployment Node and MECM Node with other as MEC Host.
Figure: EALTEdge Deployment Architecture
Note: EALTEdge Blueprint Deployment has been tested on Cloud VM and is not tested on Bare-Metal Environment. Though, theoretically deployment should work in bare metal, provided hardware and software prerequisites are met. Kindly refer R4 - Test Documentation of Enterprise Applications on Lightweight 5G Telco Edge (EALTEdge) to get details on the tested deployment.
Pre-Installation Requirements
Hardware Requirements
The number of Hardware requirements depends mainly on the Use Case Scenario and the enterprise scale. A use case can have one MECM Cluster with one or multiple MEC Host clusters.
The minimum number of nodes required for a complete EALTEdge Topology is three. (Bare-Metal or Virtual Machines)
1) Deployment Node
2) Center Node
3) Edge Node
Note: The Hardware details provided are of Virtual Machine configurations.
Minimum Hardware Requirements
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EDGE Node(s) | |
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| HW Aspect | Requirements |
| # of Node(s) | 1 MEC Host |
# of CPU | 4 |
| Architecture | x86_AMD64 or ARM64. |
| RAM | 4 GB |
| Disk | 20 GB ~ 256 GB |
| Network | 1 |
Note: The above specifications are given considering the EALTEdge CI / CD environment. User can try lower configuration considering lightweight components being used.
Recommended Hardware Requirements
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root@akraino-mec-0002:~#ealt init edge
Deploying Application Packages : Using CLI
This feature is currently not supported in Release 4. Will be modified based on the upstream EdgeGallery Project's feature on the next Release.
Snapshot Deployment Overview
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Frequently Asked Questions
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License
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