Summary
This is the first release for Enterprise Applications on Lightweight 5G Telco Edge (EALTEdge) Blueprint. The blueprint focuses on giving a complete ecosystem and platform for Telco-Edge solution. The overall architecture abides to the ETSI Recommended MEC Platform, in addition given some more components as added on Service.
The EALT Blueprint also focuses to give a Lightweight 5G Telco Edge which can be deployed on resource constraints hardware going.
The document provides details of the
What is released
Components of the release (Akraino new)
As part of this release EALTEdge blueprint released below mentioned components:
OCD (One Click Deployment) Node Components
- Ansible-playbook based single command for EALT environment installation.
- Command Line Interface for installation of various components of EALT Platform.
MECM (Multi Access Edge Computing Manager) Node Components
- APPLCM – Application Life Cycle Management component.
- Helm Chart for APPLCM
- Catalog
MEC Host (Multi Access Edge Computing Host) Node Components
- MEP Agent
- MEP Server
Dependencies of the release (Upstream Projects, Patches)
| S. No | Software | Version | Remarks |
| 1. | Kubespray | 2.13 | |
| 2. | Docker | 18.06 | |
| 3. | Kubernetes | 1.16 | |
| 4. | K3S | 1.18.2 | |
| 5. | Helm | 3.0.2 | |
| 6. | Grafana | 8-7.66.0 | |
| 7. | Calico | 3.14.0 | |
| 8. | PostgresSQL | 9.6 | |
| 9. | RabbitMQ | 3.7 | |
| 10. | Prometheus | 9.3.1 | |
| 11. | Kong | 1.5.1 | |
12. | Vault | 0.5.0 | |
| 13. | Cert-Manager | 0.15.0 |
Upgrade Procedures
Not Applicable
Release Data
Enhancements
Not Applicable
Functionality changes
Not Applicable
Upstream Software Version Changes
Not Applicable
Features
# | Name | Category | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Lightweight MEC | Platform | Lightweight MEC solution including Edge (MEC Host) & Platform Manager (MEPM) |
| 2. | OCD | Deployment Tool | One click deployment of manager & multiple edges |
| 3. | Mutli-Arch and Multi-OS Support | Platform | Heterogeneous deployment with support of Multi-Arch & Multi OS. |
| 4. | Bootstrap Script | Platform Feature | Installation scripts for EALT Platform |
| 5. | Unified CLI | Platform Feature | Unified CLI for deployment as well as workload LCM |
| 6. | APPLCM | Platform Feature | It handles the application Life cycle management of Applications which are being deployed on MEP. Like : Application Onboarding, Instantiation , Start/Stop etc. |
| 7. | Service Registry | Platform Feature | It is used by applications to discover and locate the end-points for the services they require, and to publish their own service end-point for other applications to use. |
| 8. | API Gateway | Platform Feature | Single point entry for MEP services. |
| 9. | Secret and Certificate Management. | Platform Feature | Cloud Native Secret and Certificate Generation and Management |
Version change
1.0.0
Module version changes
N/A
Document Version Changes
Version No. | Date | Author | Rationale |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.1 | 07-May-2019 | EALTEdge Blueprint Team | First Draft |
Deliverable
Software Deliverable
Software is available in https://gerrit.akraino.org/r/admin/repos/ealt-edge
Documentation Deliverable
R3 - API Documentation Enterprise Application on Lightweight 5G Telco Edge (EALTEdge)
R3 - Architecture Documentation of Enterprise Applications on Lightweight 5G Telco Edge (EALTEdge)
R3 - Installation Documentation of Enterprise Applications on Lightweight 5G Telco Edge (EALTEdge)
R3 - Release Notes of Enterprise Applications on Lightweight 5G Telco Edge EALTEdge
R3 - Test Documentation of Enterprise Applications on Lightweight 5G Telco Edge (EALTEdge)
Fixed Issues and Bugs
Not Applicable
Known Limitations, Issues and Workarounds
System Limitations
N/A
Known Issues
N/A