Cloud Native Computing Foundation / Kubernetes on Edge Day EU 2021

Don’t miss out! Join us at our upcoming event: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021 in Los Angeles, CA from October 12-15. Learn more at https://kubecon.io The conference features presentations from developers and end users of Kubernetes, Prometheus, Envoy, and all of the other CNCF-hosted projects.

A GitOps approach to Zero Touch Provisioning for the 5G vRAN Edge - Ian Jolliffe & Yolanda Robla Mota, Red Hat

Traditional approaches for deploying software at the Edge don’t scale. For example, consider the effort to deploy thousands of nodes at the Edge of the network for 5G vRAN DU’s at the base of cell towers, we need a new approach. Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP) and declarative frameworks can be leveraged to drive down OPEX and deploy software in parallel to multiple sites, with no human intervention. The declarative framework leverages many open source projects including Ansible, Kustomize, OpenShift, and Open Cluster Management. This is a diverse environment, using declarative frameworks, we can define the infrastructure as code and manage it via GitOps methodologies. These approaches are required so that the operator can bring a diverse ecosystem together to address their business problems at scale.

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Centralized, distributed or both? - Architectures for Kubernetes on the edge - Gergely Csatari, Nokia & Ildikó Váncsa, Open Infrastructure Foundation

Edge cloud environments are distributed systems that can be implemented in various ways depending on the use case. As edge computing has a broad spectrum, it opens up different architecture choices when Kubernetes is used in the solution. So which parts of Kubernetes should be deployed where? Do you always deploy all components on every site? Does that result in a too large footprint or not? How does it look like with the different cloud platforms that provide infrastructure? In this presentation we will highlight the challenges of different architecture options as well as the problems they solve. You will also learn how Kubernetes fits into the different use cases and architecture options they call for. We will also explore the relevant projects and activities in Kubernetes, such as KubeEdge, K3s, Metal3 and their findings in relation to architecture choices for edge deployments.

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DevOps on the Edge! - Prasanjit Singh, STARZPLAY

These are exciting times! Three contemporary technologies are on course to define the next decade! "Containers", "AI & ML" and "5G Networks". Why so? That is because, this combination paves the way for a massive disruption - 'Edge computing'. For the uninitiated, 'edge computing' is a distributed computing architecture that moves applications as close as possible to the user base. Edge computing bundled with 5G tech & ML will transform how enterprises run applications and services today. Core to this transformation is the ability of deploying these applications to edge locations. Kubernetes & its ecosystem of utilities will play a defining role here as the edge orchestrator.

In this lightning talk, Prasanjit Singh will articulate on DevOps tools & tailored practices that will define the journey to edge computing and assess where we stand today in terms of edge capabilities.

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Develop once, deploy anywhere: flexible infrastructure extends to the edge - Frank Zdarsky, Red Hat

Edge computing use cases can be highly diverse: Workloads ranging from cloud-native web services to AI to real-time control to legacy virtual appliances. Hardware footprints ranging from micro data centers to embedded compute units. Environmental challenges on networking, security, energy, … How do you go about solving this? When is Kubernetes the right choice and when not? What is important in a Kubernetes distribution for the edge and what is not? How to ensure your dev+ops complexity doesn’t explode? In this session, hear how to address many of these challenges and provide the flexibility to scale with the tools you’re already using.

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KubeEdge and Kubernetes help manage all the monitoring devices on the world's longest cross-sea bridge - Huan Wei, HarmonyCloud

With a total length of 55 km, the HongKong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge is the longest cross-sea bridge in the world. In order to watch and maintain the safety of the bridge, a large number of sensors are deployed on the bridge, such as temperature sensor, humidity sensor, PM 2.5 sensor, vibration sensor, noise sensor, etc. Then each sensor continuously collects data, processes data locally, and reports the abnormal information to the cloud center for alarm through real-time inference of AI model. In this presentation, Huan will share his experience on: 1) An investigation on common cloud native edge computing frameworks, and the reason why he chose KubeEdge. 2) Introducing how to mapper every kind of devices on the bridge as CRD in Kubernetes. 3) Practice on how to manage applications deployed on edge nodes. 4) Lessons learned and further planning.

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Kubernetes Robotics Edge Cluster System - Tomoya Fujita, Sony Corporation & Feng Gao, Sony China Limited

Sony R&D Center has been though robotics history and products for years. As robotics platform and Robotics Operating System (ROS) getting matured, there is a requirement to handle the distributed system integration. Using Kubernetes on edge cluster system, there are a lot of advantages such as application lifecycle, deployment and recovery. Also using CNI and ROS Data Distributed System, it can construct distributed system on edge cluster, so that multiple robots can connect directedly and work collaboratively for the specific task. We will share how we can use Kubernetes on edge including deployment robotics application and possible problems based on our experience. Furthermore, we will share our approach to support edge dependent platform with device-plugin to attach hardware resources and even virtual devices which access to the host system such as 3rd party application.

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Kubernetes at the Edge for Telcos - Abhinivesh Jain, Wipro

5G rollout is gaining momentum across the world and in next few years, 5G and Multi access edge computing will become part of our life. Considering the cloud native nature of 5G architecture and huge scale, Kubernetes becomes the defacto standard for Edge application deployment for Telco Edge. This session talks about Telco relevance of various kubernetes distributions, extensions and features. It also covers pros, cons, current state of adoption and future outlook for these. This session will be perfect start for you if you are starting your k8s journey in Telco world.

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Kubernetes running Manufacturing systems. A perfect match? - Moritz Kröger, RWTH Chair for Lasertechnology

The demand of modern manufacturing machines for better quality inspection and condition monitoring has lead to an increase of sensors and cameras in these systems. Especially in the area of Laser-based manufacturing where a typical machine can produce up to multiple Gigabytes of data per second single manufacturing computers are simply not powerful enough to handle this kind of workload. A research team of the RWTH Chair for Laser technology is currently building a distributed Kubernetes based control system for Laser manufacturing machines. This system not only aggregates the generated data and controls the machine in a distributed environment, but also allows the dynamic injection of data analytics at the edge. This talk gives an overview of the current state of the systems as well as the pros and cons of working with Kubernetes to control manufacturing machines.

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Level Setting the Cloud Native Edge: Definitions and Core Principles - Keith Basil, Rancher

Everyone has a different definition of the “edge”. Collectively we’ve found it useful to establish a baseline definition of the edge so that meaningful discussions can ensue. In this talk we will review an example framework that has evolved over time during the natural interactions with engineering, partners and those doing real-world cloud-native edge deployments. Borrowing from the aforementioned framework, the session will also succinctly highlight core principals and attributes that are present in the majority of the Kubernetes edge use cases we see today. Attendees of this session will get an introduction to the edge challenges in the areas of application, cluster and operating system management at edge scale.

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Live from Kubecon - Over the Edge with Craig McLuckie, VMware & Matt Trifiro, Vapor IO

Join Over the Edge podcast “Live from Kubecon”! This iteration will feature Craig McLuckie, VP of Research and Development at VMware, working in the Cloud Native Applications business unit. Previously, Craig was co-founder of Google App Engine and the Kubernetes project, and founder and CEO of Heptio (acquired by VMware).

Don’t miss out! Join us at our upcoming event: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021 in Los Angeles, CA from October 12-15. Learn more at https://kubecon.io The conference features presentations from developers and end users of Kubernetes, Prometheus, Envoy, and all of the other CNCF-hosted projects.

Ready, Set, Go for K8s at edge today for AI/ML with Tensorflow - Amol Chobe & Sachin Rathee, Red Hat

At the edge, you typically have to work with a smaller footprint of infrastructure that don’t have enough capacity to run K8s effectively, such as with the majority of IoT devices that are just sensors. Considerations should also be made for bandwidth, connectivity and latency issues at edge. We will discuss potential K8s architecture patterns that can be used for edge workloads, along with all the different elements you’ll need to build an architecture that matches each application’s requirement of low-latency, data privacy and bandwidth scalability. With TensorFlow running at the edge within K8s, you can deploy deep learning models as microservices. We discuss how to apply ML models to detect real-time IoT anomaly and threat mitigation.

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Streaming analytics on edge with Kuiper and KubeEdge - Rocky Jin, EMQ Technologies Co., Ltd.

EMQ X Kuiper is an open source edge lightweight IoT data analytics/streaming software, and it can be run at all kinds of resource constrained edge devices. KubeEdge is an open source system for extending native containerized application orchestration capabilities to hosts at Edge. The session introduces how to use KubeEdge's application orchestration capabilities and data streaming analytics provided by Kuiper. The session covers Kuiper data ETL, order, group, aggregation, SQL functions, and binary data processing. Also introducing extension for audio and video AI analytic, and the time windows required for IoT analytics. Finally introduce KubeEdge cloud-edge collaboration channel, how user can manage analysis logics at cloud side and accommodate to agile business requirements.

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Take the Edge to the Cloud with OpenYurt and EdgeX Foundry - Yixing Jia, VMware & Chao Zheng, Alibaba Cloud

According to the application-container market report, Edge applications can benefit a lot from using the application container model. Kubernetes(K8S) has been proven effective in managing containers on the cloud. However, the edge applications are usually fragmented, i.e., various protocols, hardware, etc., making it challenging to use K8S in the edge environment. As a plug-and-play Open Source IoT Edge platform, EdgeX Foundry(EdgeX) allows devices belonging to different manufacturers with different protocols to be connected. On the other hand, OpenYurt extends the native K8S to the edge using only plugins, which supports all upstream K8S features. In this talk, we will present our edge-cloud solution that integrates EdgeX into OpenYurt. Our solution leverages EdgeX’s ability to manage a rich collection of edge devices and uses OpenYurt to manage servers in the edge environment.

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Taming Unbounded Resources with Node Feature Discovery - Mark Abrams, SUSE

Although Node Feature Discovery (NFD) can be used in any Kubernetes cluster, it's value really shines at the Edge. Kubernetes has 2 notable differences at the Far Edge versus in the data center. 1) The edge exploits and unbounded number of heterogenous resources 2) Enterprises are reporting cluster deployments defined in numbers from hundreds to 10s of thousands. These two characteristics will require management capabilities beyond what use in the data center today. This presentation and demo uses a small fleet of Kubernetes edge clusters and NFD to show how we can build solutions which expose the availability of any arbitrary resource desired. The capabilities proposed by NFD will provide much needed insights into the unbounded capabilities of the massive number of available resources at the Edge.