Blueprint overview/Introduction
The 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.) workloads. 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, including fast dataplane like SRIOV, DPDK.
- Support for real-time workloads using CentOS-rt*.
High performance optimizations (hugepages, CPU topology management, etc.)
Documentation
KNI Blueprint User Documentation.
Project Team
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Committer
Committer
Company
Committer
Contact Info
Self Nominate for PTL (Y/N)
Member | Company | Contact | Role | Photo & Bio | PTL Self Nomination (y/n) |
| Andrew Bays | Red Hat | Committer |
Frank Zdarsky | Red Hat |
Jennifer Koerv
Intel
| Committer | Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat Office of the CTO; Edge Computing and | ||||
| Ricardo Noriega | Red Hat | Ricardo Noriega | Committer | Red Hat NFVPE - CTO office - Networking | Y |
Sukhdedv Kapur | Juniper | Committer | Distinguished Engineer; Contrail Software - CTO Org |
| Yolanda Robla | Red Hat | Yolanda Robla Mota | Committer | Red Hat NFVPE - Edge, baremetal provisioning |
| Arm |
| Contributor |
Overview
Project contributors:
Red Hat (contact: Frank Zdarsky)
Intel (contact: Jennifer Koerv)
Juniper (contact: Sukhdev Kapur)
Project committers:
to be identified once the proposal is accepted
Project plan:
to be developed once the proposal is accepted
Resourcing:
- will be established once the proposal is accepted
| Abhinivesh Jain | Wipro | abhinivesh.jain@wipro.com | Committer | ||
| Sheetal | Red Hat | Sheetal Chetan Singala | Committer |
Use Case Template
Attributes | Description | Informational |
|---|---|---|
Type | New | |
Industry Sector | Telco and carrier networks | |
Business Driver | The need for deploying mobile application on the edge is growing in latest times. Providing a platform that is capable of supporting deployment of mobile applications, using Kubernetes, and based on kubernetes tooling and declarative configuration from end to end is needed. | |
Business Use Cases | Edge deployments for 5G, mobile edge applications, vRAN | |
Business Cost - Initial Build Cost Target Objective | It can be deployed on libvirt, amazon and baremetal. Deployment on baremetal requires a small footprint POD with just 5 servers (1 bootstrap, 3 masters, 1 worker) | |
Business Cost – Target Operational Objective | The POD footprint starts being the same (5 servers), depending on the use case. Typically the cost will be less than $100k | |
Security Need | Kubernetes security monitoring and patching capabilities will be required, they are part of the deployment itself | |
Regulations | It will depend on the use case, and the workloads applied on top | |
Other Restrictions | - | |
Additional Details | - |
Blueprint Template
Attributes | Description | Informational |
|---|---|---|
Type | New | |
Blueprint Family - Proposed Name | Kubernetes-Native Infrastructure for Edge (KNI-Edge) | |
Use Case | Provider Access Edge (PAE) | |
Blueprint - Proposed Name | Provider Access Edge (PAE) | |
Initial POD Cost (CAPEX) | less than $150k (TBC) | |
Scale & Type | 3 to 7 x86 servers (Xeon class) | |
Applications | vRAN (RIC), MEC apps (CDN, AI/ML, …) | |
Power Restrictions | less than 10kW (TBC) | |
Infrastructure orchestrationEnd-to-end Service Orchestration: ONAP | App Lifecycle Management: Kubernetes Operators (mix of Helm and native) | |
SDN | Tungsten Fabric OpenShift SDN (w/ SR-IOV, DPDK, and multi-i/f); leaf-and-spine fabric mgmt. | |
| SDS | Ceph | |
Workload Type | containers, VMs | |
Additional Details | - |