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DRAFT


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

Survey of OPNFV Edge Cloud activities

Survey of upstream Edge Cloud activities

Recommendations

  • Develop clear messaging to establish and reinforce OPNFV relevance and unique role in the Industry to integrate and test Edge ingredients in order to solve challenges of deploying and managing Edge Cloud
    • Provide one (unified view) of OPNFV Edge activities to help projects collaborate and avoid duplication
    • Maintain an "Edge dashboard" to show progress and what has been delivered
    • Consider publishing a White Paper that highlights collaboration with upstream projects

  • 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

  • Strong collaborations with relevant upstream communities and Edge related 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 the first Edge stack upstream
    • Collaborate with StarlingX, Airship, OpenStack Computing Group on adding to Pharos spec

  • Establish ongoing feedback with EUAG for evaluating progress and updating objectives

  • Deliver at least one Edge Cloud scenario (consider both NFV and non-NFV use-cases) for Gambia 
    • Pharos Edge spec (first iteration, multi-architecture) 
    • Edge test cases 
       
  • OVP
    • Develop profile of Edge platform capabilities
    • Develop set of Edge relevant test cases based to test against commercial platforms

  • Pharos
    • Expand to Edge flavors
      • OpenStack Edge Computing group - 1) small, 2) medium
      • 1) Minimal (fully embedded), 2) small DC (enterprise edge, Access level CO/DC with limited space and power), 3) large (Metro level CO/DC)
    • Harmonize on definitions and terminology. Expand PDF?
    • Support for heterogenous hardware within a POD
    • How to do federation, scaling, simulate characteristics of remote sites?
  • Maintain list of perceived gaps in upstream projects wrt Edge and OPNFV activities contributing to resolving these gaps

  • Need a position wrt ETSI MEC and how this maps into OPNFV reference platform for Edge

OPNFV Edge Cloud Activities

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Project or activityEdge focus (e.g. ingredients, requirements, ...)

Edge scenarios / use-cases

Hardware aspectsTest framework. Edge specific test-cases.Upstream collaborationSuggestions
AutoONAP-based automation of VNF management with Edge Cloud use-case

Management of Edge Cloud

vCPE

Compare power consumption of architectures

Functest initially only functional tests. Later include performance monitoring with ONAP Data Collection Analytics and Events

ONAP Edge automation
EdgeCloud

requirement analysis

architecture design

reference platform for edge

TBDis working with pharos for edge specific hardwareTBDopenstack EC WG
  • Begin on code development of reference platform
  • work out report and gap analysis for upstream communities
Container4NFVContainer4NFV provides basic CT feature for VNF, for example. It supports mutlus, DPDK, and SR-IOV.  In edge , container is the best tool which can reduce the resource usage. No In Container4NFV, we support x86 and ARM.  In order to accelerate data plane, containe4nfv support DPDK and SR-IOV. In future, we will support VPP.

Project specific testing for yardstick.

 test the network performance ,including DPDK, SR-IOV and VPP. 

but not specific for edge


  • cross project collaboration with the edge cloud project and AUTO to work out edge scenario taking consideration of container management
CRAN

Concluding the MEC applications for radio access network, exploring the deployment proposal  for MEC and 5G CU. For the specific design.

TBD


  • start project work asap (mailing list discussion, regular project call, release planning, and etc.)
  • provide CRAN requirement for edge, e.g. acceleration
CloverEdge is a scenario for cloud native support. Focus is on service mesh (micro-services) using containers managed by Kubernetes.5G low latency services, AR/VR, IoTSelect edge devices, will contribute an edge pod to Pharos (with K8S and container support).Extend CI to zero-touch continuous deployment. Developing Edge test cases for various Cloud Native test tools. Planning performance testing.

ONAP ( pending discussion), k8s, CNCF

  • Collaborate with EdgeCloud to contribute micro-services use-case and requirements.
  • Contribute Edge POD definition to Pharos spec.
VCO Demo 2.0 (Is a PoC, not run as a project)Central Office Edge. Mobile network access (vRAN) and scope includes virtualized mobile core network components. "Learn by doing" approach and gap analysis using commercial and open source VNFs.A set of mobile network specific servicesUsing community contributed/supported hardware as demo, not on a Pharos POD. For future may use hardware from e.g. OCP, TIP, others?No edge specific test cases. Testing is not a focus.ONAP Casablanca (not committed to yet). Also Open Stack, ODL, k8s, OpenAirInterface
  • Collaborate with EdgeCloud to feed requirements, gaps and learnings.
  • Position for promoting OPNFV EdgeCloud activities and outputs
  • Consider EdgeCloud scenarios for design of VCO 3.0


Upstream Edge Cloud

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Activities

UpstreamsEdge related activitiesuseful linkprogresscollaboration with OPNFVsuggestion for next step
ONAPEdge automation WGhttps://wiki.onap.org/display/DW/Edge+Automation+through+ONAP

Regular meetings

some discussion for vCPE and MEC

Not yet.

Hope the connection could be built with AUTO and Edge cloud project to address Orchestration issue of edge

  • Build connection through AUTO and edge cloud project
  • addresss edge orchestration issues in ONAP
OpenStack

Edge computing WG start in 2017

Fog/Edge/Massively Distributed Clouds SIG

https://www.openstack.org/edge-computing/

https://www.openstack.org/assets/edge/OpenStack-EdgeWhitepaper-v3-online.pdf

https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Fog_Edge_Massively_Distributed_Clouds


Glance image handling in edge environment : https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Image_handling_in_edge_environment

Keystone edge architectures: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Keystone_edge_architectures


white paper publish for edge from the EC WG

discussion of EC WG mainly focusing on security of edge, Keystone, Glance. Not to redesign OpenStack from scrach for edge, but to made certain modification to have openstack fit into edge

Collaboration with the edge cloud project already built
  • Enhance the collaboration following the deployment of EC WG and bring them back into OPNFV integration
  • Consider vCPE scenario from white paper.
  • Test Glance and Cinder Edge scenarios.
Akraino (LFN)Fully integrated edge stack with production quality code and blue-prints including hardware specs.

https://www.akraino.org/

Akraino 1.0 release definition, Blueprints definition, use cases .... brainstorm from May F2F https://etherpad.acumos.org/p/Akraino-release

Mailing lists https://lists.akraino.org/g/main


Governance and membership/process structures WIP

Current seed code is NEV SDK however this may move into StarlingX

Definition of deliverables WIP ... "blueprints", developer APIs, middleware (SDKs), ETSI MEC functions and APIs


OPNFV has mature CI/CD Infra, test frameworks and release engineering tools/process which could be leveraged by Akraino. OPNFV EdgeCloud is developing requirements which could be consumed by Akraino.

Akraino help define OPNFV Edge Cloud scenarios and Pharos Edge flavors (from Blueprints).


  • OPNFV liason to Akraino helps inform and facilitate collaboration with regular report back to TSC
  • Proposal to provide lab, test resources?
  • Host Akraino scenario for a release?
Airship (OSF)ATT "Oceans" seed code for deployment of "under cloud"

https://www.airshipit.org/

https://github.com/openstack/airship-in-a-bottle

OSF project


Consider site definitions (from ATT) for Pharos Edge spec
StarlingX (OSF)Wind River Titanium Cloud R5 seed code.http://www.starlingx.io/OSF project announced at Open Stack Summit
Consider Wind River Titanium deployment flavors for Edge POD definition.
Open Edge Compute Initiative (OEC)Developing Open Edge API for 3rd party developers



CORD (ONF)open reference implementation of central office  with commodity servers, white-box switches, open source software (e.g., OpenStack, ONOS, XOS)

https://opencord.org/

https://wiki.opencord.org/

https://guide.opencord.org/

Under development

Kubernetes (CNCF)Automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applicationshttps://kubernetes.io/v1.10

EdgeXFoundry (LF)

IoT edge computing framework and and ecosystem of interoperable components that accelerates the
deployment of IoT solutions

https://www.edgexfoundry.org/


Certification program planned

Telecom Infra Project (TIP)Lab and field implementations for services/applications at the network edge

https://telecominfraproject.com/

https://www.lightreading.com/oss-bss/facebooks-tip-and-telcos-upend-old-operational-models/d/d-id/741488

Recommendations

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  • Pharos Edge spec (first iteration, multi-architecture) 
  • Edge test cases 
     

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  • Develop set of Edge related test cases based on desirable capabilities of an Edge deployment.
  • Pharos
    • Expand to Edge flavors
      • OpenStack Edge Computing group - 1) small, 2) medium
      • 1) Minimal (fully embedded), 2) small DC (enterprise edge, Access level CO/DC with limited space and power), 3) large (Metro level CO/DC)
    • Harmonize on definitions and terminology. Expand PDF?
    • Support for heterogenous hardware within a POD
    • How to do federation, scaling, simulate characteristics of remote sites?
  • White Paper
    • Include collaboration activities between communities
  • Working with OpenStack on tangible activity 

Opens and Gaps

Gaps in OPNFV Projects

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ETSI MEC

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