2021-06-09 - Anuket: Profiles and Flavours

60 minutes @Riccardo Gasparetto (incl. APAC Topic Leader)

Workloads expect certain capabilities and performance from the resources that they will execute on.  Creating workload specific configurations becomes not only unmanageable but may render the resources un-shareable.  A profile is a set of resource configurations that meet needs of a family of workloads. Profiles partition the infrastructure resources and, thus, the number of profiles affects resource utilisation.  Newer workloads, such as for 5G or O-RAN, leads to demand for new profiles or profile extensions. In Anuket, we recently decided on the concept of profile extensions. With the new definition of two high level profile abstractions and associated profile extensions, flavours have also been redefined. This session will seek a discussion on the efficacy of the adopted approach, alternatives, definition of additional profile extensions, and workload flavours.