- OPNFV Edge Cloud strategy Task Force meeting notes: https://etherpad.opnfv.org/p/tsc_edge_cloud
Recommendations
- 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?)
- 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?)
- 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
- Solicit feedback from EUAG for validating approach and tracking progress
- 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
- 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
- Pharos
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9. Develop OPNFV position wrt ETSI MEC and how it maps to OPNFV
OPNFV Edge Cloud Activities
Note:
- Edge NFV (eNFV) project was approved in 2015 but has not been active. Project was terminated by the TSC on 5/8/2018
- Multi-access Edge project proposal has been withdrawn
Survey of OPNFV Edge Cloud activities https://etherpad.opnfv.org/p/tsc_edge_cloud_project_questions, https://etherpad.opnfv.org/p/tsc_edge_cloud_opnfv_activities
| Project or activity | Edge focus (e.g. ingredients, requirements, ...) | Hardware aspects | Test framework. Edge specific test-cases. | Upstream collaboration | Suggestions | |
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| Auto | ONAP-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 | TBD | is working with pharos for edge specific hardware | TBD | openstack EC WG |
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| Container4NFV | Container4NFV 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 |
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| CRAN | Concluding the MEC applications for radio access network, exploring the deployment proposal for MEC and 5G CU. For the specific design. | TBD |
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| Clover | Edge 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, IoT | Select 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 |
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| 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 services | Using 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 |
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Upstream Edge Cloud Activities
Survey of upstream Edge Cloud activities https://etherpad.opnfv.org/p/tsc_edge_cloud_upstream_communities
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