Topic Areas:
Edge deployment scenarios
Cloud Infrastructure (CI) deployment environment for different edge deployments:
Controlled: Indoors, Restricted environments. Data Centers, Central Offices, Indoor venues. Operational benefits for installation and maintenance, and reduced need for hardening.
Exposed: Outdoors, Unprotected environments. Expensive equipment
Cloud Infrastructure (CI) hardware design for different edge deployments:
Cloud Infrastructure (CI) - Standard Design: COTS, standard hardware designs and form factors. Controlled environment. Reduces operational complexity.
Cloud Infrastructure (CI) - Custom Design: non-standard hardware designs and form factors. Controlled and/or Exposed environments. Operationally complex environment.
Cloud Infrastructure (CI) hardware specifications for different edge deployments:
Cloud Infrastructure (CI) - CNTT Basic: General Purpose CPU; Standard Design.
Cloud Infrastructure (CI) - CNTT Network Intensive: CNTT Basic + high speed user plane (low latency, high throughput); Standard Design.
Cloud Infrastructure (CI) - CNTT Network Intensive+ : CNTT Network Intensive + optional hardware acceleration (compared with software acceleration can result in lower power use and smaller physical size); possible Custom Design.
Cloud Infrastructure (CI) - CNTT Network Intensive++ : CNTT Network Intensive + required hardware acceleration; Custom Design.
Server capabilities for different edge deployments and the OpenStack services that run on these servers:
Control nodes host the OpenStack control plane components (subset of Cloud Controller Services), and needs certain capabilities:
OpenStack services: Identity (keystone), Image (glance), Placement, Compute (nova), Networking (neutron) with ML2 plug-in
Message Queue, Database server
Network Interfaces: management, provider and overlay
Compute nodes host a subset of the Compute Node Services:
Hypervisor
OpenStack Compute nova-compute (creating/deleting instances)
OpenStack Networking neutron-l2-agent, VXLAN, metadata agent, and any dependencies
Network Interfaces: management, provider and overlay
Local Ephemeral Storage
Edge Deployments:
Small footprint edge device: only networking agents
Single server: deploy multiple (one or more) Compute nodes
Single server: single Controller and multiple (one or more) Compute nodes
HA at edge (at least 3 edge servers): Multiple Controller and multiple Compute nodes