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Edge-Cloud Platform

The Edge-Cloud Platform is a set of services that allow for distributed and secure management of edge sites ("cloudlets"), featuring deployment of workloads, one-touch provisioning of new cloudlets, monitoring, metrics, alerts, events, and more.

The platform is intended to satisfy the architecture of an Operator Platform as described in the GSMA document, Operator Platform Telco Edge Proposal, and adhere to standardized interfaces developed by CAMARA.

Services​

  • The Controller provides the API endpoint for, and manages creating, updating, deleting, and showing application definitions, cloudlets, clusters, application instances, policies, etc. It manages object dependencies and validation, stores objects in Etcd, and distributes objects to other services that need to be notified of data changes.

  • The Cloudlet Resource Manager (CRM) manages infrastructure on a cloudlet site, calling the underlying infrastruture APIs to instantiate virtual machines, docker containers, kubernetes clusters, or kubernetes applications, depending on what the actual infrastructure type supports.

  • The Central Cloudlet Resource Manager (CCRM) manages the lifecycle of CRMs deployed on edge sites.

  • The Distrbuted Matching Engine (DME) provides the API endpoint for mobile device clients to discover existing application instances, provide operator-specific services like location APIs, and push notifications to mobile devices via a persistent connection.

  • The ClusterSvc service automatically deploys additional applications to clusters to enable monitoring, metrics, and storage.

  • The EdgeTurn service is much like a TURN server, providing secure console and shell access to virtual machines and containers deployed on cloudlets.

  • Shepherd deploys alongside the CRM (Cloudlet Resource Manager) on cloudlet infrastructure for advanced metrics and alerts.

  • The AutoProv service monitors auto-provision policies and automatically deploys and undeploys application instances based on client demand.

Currently supported infrastructures are:​

VM-Based:​

  • Openstack
  • VMWare VSphere
  • VMWare Cloud Director (VCD)
  • VMPool (a bunch of VMs)
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2

Kubernetes Based:​

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) EKS
  • Google Cloud Platform (GCP) GKE
  • K8S Bare Metal (primarily but not limited to Google Anthos)
  • Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)