Summary
This release of Enterprise Applications on Lightweight 5G Telco Edge (EALTEdge) 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.
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.
CENTER Node Components
- MECM
- Appstore
- Developer Platform
EDGE Node Components
- MEP Agent
- MEP Server
- Applcm
Note: For details, please refer to Architecture Document (R4 - Architecture Documentation of Enterprise Applications on Lightweight 5G Telco Edge (EALTEdge)#PlatformArchitecture)
Dependencies of the release (Upstream Projects, Patches)
| S. No | Software | Version | Remarks |
| 1. | Kubespray | 2.13 | |
| 2. | Docker | 19.03.14 | |
| 3. | Kubernetes | 1.19.3 | |
| 4. | K3S | 1.19.4+ | |
| 5. | Helm | 3.0.2 | |
| 6. | Grafana | 8-7.66.0 | |
| 7. | Calico | 3.14.0 | |
| 8. | RabbitMQ | 3.7 | |
| 9. | Prometheus | 9.3.1 | |
10. | Vault | 0.5.0 | |
| 11. | Cert-Manager | 0.15.0 | |
| 12. | Edge Gallery | 0.9 | |
| 13. | OpenEBS | 2.3.0 | |
| 14. | Velero | 1.5.2 | |
| 15. | InfluxDB | 2.0 |
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 Center & multiple edge nodes |
| 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. | Secret and Certificate Management. | Platform Feature | Cloud Native Secret and Certificate Generation and Management |
| 7 | Edge Gallery and services | Platform feature | MEP, MECM (MEO + MEPM), Appstore and Developer platform features from Edge Gallery |
| 8 | Storage | Platform Feature | EALTEDGE uses Open-Ebs for storage. It is a Kubernetes native hyperconverged storage solution |
| 9 | Backup and Restore | Platform Feature | EALTEdge uses Velero - An open source tool to safely backup and restore, perform disaster recovery, and migrate Kubernetes cluster resources and persistent volumes |
| 10. | Common DB | Platform Feature | Time Series Database (InfluxDB) |
Version change
2.0.0
Module version changes
N/A
Document Version Changes
Version No. | Date | Author | Rationale |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.1 | 04-Dec-2020 | EALTEdge Blueprint Team | First Draft |
Deliverable
Software Deliverable
Software is available in https://gerrit.akraino.org/r/admin/repos/ealt-edge
Documentation Deliverable
R4 - API Documentation Enterprise Application on Lightweight 5G Telco Edge (EALTEdge)
R4 - Architecture Documentation of Enterprise Applications on Lightweight 5G Telco Edge (EALTEdge)
R4 - Installation Documentation of Enterprise Applications on Lightweight 5G Telco Edge (EALTEdge)
R4 - Release Notes of Enterprise Applications on Lightweight 5G Telco Edge EALTEdge
R4 - 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