DRAFT

OPNFV Edge Cloud strategy Task Force meeting notes: https://etherpad.opnfv.org/p/tsc_edge_cloud

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Survey of upstream Edge Cloud activities

Recommendations

1. Develop clear messaging to establish and reinforce OPNFV relevance and unique role in the Industry to address challenges with integrating, deploying, testing, managing Edge Cloud. 
   • Provide a unified view of OPNFV Edge activities to help projects collaborate and avoid duplication
   • Maintain an "Edge dashboard" or equivalent tool to track progress and community artifacts for Edge
   • Consider publishing a White Paper and/or joint conference sessions highlighting collaboration with upstream projects
   • Develop a roadmap of Edge announcement/s (ONS in September?)
     
     
2. TSC to actively encourage and facilitate OPNFV Edge activities with strong developer focus (beyond requirements and use-case analysis)
   • Need a code base for developers to work on and focus community effort
   • Need an installer strategy for Edge Cloud deployment (Compass?)
     
     
3. Establish strong collaboration with relevant upstream communities and Edge related Industry activities
   • EdgeCloud has already established a working relationship with Open Stack Edge Computing Group (note this is being merged with FEMDC) and is exploring collaboration with Keystone and Glance
   • Explore collaboration with StarlingX as upstream ingredient for first Edge scenario
   • Collaborate with StarlingX, Airship, OpenStack Computing Group, etc. for Pharos spec. additions
     
     
4. Solicit feedback from EUAG for validating approach and tracking progress
   
   
5. Deliver at least one Edge Cloud scenario for Gambia (consider both NFV and non-NFV use-cases)
   • Pharos Edge spec (first iteration, multi-architecture) 
   • Edge test cases 

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2. OVP (Compliance Program) 
   • Develop profile of Edge platform capabilities
   • Develop set of Edge relevant test cases based to test against commercial platforms
   • Include Edge test-cases in release after Gambia
3. Pharos

• • Expand Pharos spec to n Edge flavors 
    • OpenStack Edge Computing group - 1) small, 2) medium
    • Airship 1) Minimal (fully embedded), 2) small DC (enterprise edge, Access level CO/DC with limited space and power), 3) large (Metro level CO/DC)
    • StarlingX 1) EdgeSX 2) Edge 3) Core
    • etc.
  • Definitions and terminology ... expand PDF?
  • Support heterogeneous hardware within a POD
  • Investigate feasibility to adopt ENOS framework for simulating distributed clouds clouds
    
    

8. Maintain list of perceived gaps in upstream projects wrt Edge and OPNFV activities contributing to resolving these gaps

9. Develop OPNFV position wrt ETSI MEC and how it maps to OPNFV

OPNFV Edge Cloud Activities

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