Kubernetes IoT Edge Working Group, 9 Sep 2020

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September 9, 2020 meeting of the Kubernetes IoT Edge Working group presentation by Tina Tsou on the Linux Foundation Akraino project with aspects related to Kubernetes

A

So welcome to the september 9th 2020 meeting of the kubernetes iot edge working group um in today's meeting, we're going to have a presentation on a crano by tina and we may have a few other people pop in with unplanned agenda items.

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So that said, if you want to start tina, go ahead.

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Thank you, steve.

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See share my screen, says: host disable participant screen sharing.

D

Steve, I think you should do that. You're, the host you're on youtube.

C

We try one more time now it seems I can okay cool uh hello, everyone. This is tina joe, uh the tlc co-chair of akrino, I'm happy to share with you the aquino ready, 3 update, so uh aquino v3. The slogan is to unify the lf edge with blueprints and telco edge software.

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So um today we can talk about uh elf, edge overview momentum and the recent news coverage and some background and r3 summary for equino. If we have time and you're interested, I can share some details of our three blueprints and use cases and also give you some details of the commercial ecosystem adoption so um overview today.

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The edge computing is hacked all the way covers from the user edge to the service provider edge with the dedicated operator to the shared xas.

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We have application and infrastructure on the other side from um through the vertical things, and you can see the elf edge project actually covers um all of this, and we have a different stages of uh projects like aquino is at the impact project, which is the highest stage of the project's lifecycle, and the lfh has the end-to-end context.

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The its deployment ready open source include the use case of enterprise across the device edge. Then we have the home edge eve there going through the infrastructure edge and all the way to the cloud and the core. So we work together with different organizations like kubernetes and uh cncf onap, ultracommerce, ai, uh all kind of then at mac. So we are doing a closed loop from products to deployment and we get the profit. But the beginning was the project.

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Okay, so this is a busy slide from the previous edge. A previous page. You can see we have some um telco edge blueprints like a radio edge cloud network cloud, some vertical edge application blueprints like we have connected vehicle, the ar classroom, arvr classroom and also the enterprise edge cloud automation, blueprint like icn and kni provided access edge is led by red hat and private lte, etc.

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We also have some iiot, which has the iot um workload on top of it like the uh predictive and condition based monitoring and for the transformers pumps and the tensorflow machine learning for the edge apps. So we are working on that the lf edge summary. um Maybe you can find the logos from your company.

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There are many uh premium members, and many of them are very active in ukraine, like 73 of them yeah.

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um You can see uh the equino blueprints has more than 30 blueprints uh in development and there were 15 800 global mentions since launch of lfh.

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There are more than 25 global deployment and commercial products are available. Today, um a crinoline 3 at a waste we have a half a year attendance and um but uh you know the pi is a little bit always a little bit uh later than the actual uh release date. So august 12, there is a pr announcement.

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We have six new r3 blueprints. The total of 20 currently use cases all the way across from telco enterprise cloud, iot cetera and also this blueprint covers many areas, including mac, ai machine learning, cloud, connective vehicle, air, vr, android cloud native, smart x, um the interconnect for cloud gaming, telco core and open rain, with ongoing support of r1r2 blueprints and more so we have. We do have some open edge api specifications to standardized across devices applications, cloud native, orchestrations and multi-cloud.

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I think of vmware contributed the multi-cloud parts.

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So there are many courage, all the way from fields telecom light, reading sdx center sdn lab. Is it sure.

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And so, let's have a close look at aquino the new intelligent edge so launch things. 2018 uh equino continues to gain the community support and um for the creation of deprivable edge solutions, your more than 30 blueprints and it's globally adapted in commercial solutions to adjust different uh edge use cases.

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So there were multiple community lab and user labs to speed up the edge innovation and, as I said, we have new blueprint for deployment of r3 and also create a framework for the standardized apis. There are many tools you can just run the the yama file. You can run the scripts automatically to validate your blueprints, all the way from hardware os, virtualization, docker, kubernetes, and also the security scanning with linus and vars and kobe hunter.

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The criminal community has participated in different um several industry industry us outreach events like the one: yes, the open computing world on these things.

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You can see uh the global word, the continental map, how it looks like uh the use cases cross. I o t private uh provider access, edge, sd1 uh and edge media processing and carrier edge, media processing, you're 75 percent. Over sorry, I was saying 73 actually, 75 percent of edge premium members are active in equity. There are more than 30 of 40 companies engaged across the globe.

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um This um some of uh the active contributions you can see uh who are active contributions and lines of code and uh the commits here um there. This link has the real-time one. This is some time ago, all right, so people may ask with a cranial blueprint, so you may hear the propane from openstack, but this blueprint has specific meaning here. That means community integrated tested deployable and to an edge step.

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For example, we got a use case of under cloud, then we go to the community, do the full acid and it's proven and tested by the community, and we have community life cycle, support similar to cncf, uh from um like incubation and to mature to core and maintenance which guarantee the production quality.

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All right. um The green dot and blue dots here means the blue dot. Is the brandy new r3 blueprint, the green one means it grows and enhance the r1r2 blueprint from the very far end.

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You can see the micromax it's about in the lipos it's deployed in finland, so for the smartest 5g, road and and the ic type one is for some um small board like gateways and the ella iot gateway and ucpe is deployed in uh like russian telecom telecom, malaysia, uh swisscom france, obs in uh south africa telecom those companies and going to the access edge.

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You can see the 5g mac cloud gaming, uh china, unicorn, china, china, mobile, provide the 5g b2b services to tencent and tencent, provide b2c services to the end users for cloud gaming, hd, video and live streaming. The 5g mac enterprise is the closest one to the.

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Rack is being deployed in the triad zoom and the largest american operators and the ai edge security has been deployed by baidu and china for several cities, it's the biggest city like beijing, hangzhou connective vehicle is being used by tencent for their connective vehicle. Networking with don phone group and bmw and icn has been used by many places, mainly for the cloud native and the uh hold on.

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Okay, so everybody in my family has a zone meeting has to close the door. um The ic type 2 to 5 type 2 is for the edge server type. 3 is for the android cloud for cloud. Gaming aic as type 4 is for arvr type. 5 is for symmonix um the obs wdk.

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They have been deployed in many hyperscalers and mainly in china, and also as some north american companies network cloud family is being deployed in uh 18th network and kni provide the access edge. I think it's been deployed in france.

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Okay, so what's next for the second half of aquino, we keep working to enhance existing blueprint with the there will be more new blueprints, like public cloud edge interface. We work with cindy cindy was in in this call from the microsoft azure iot edge uh to work with, like equinix agent t for those telcos and standardize the public cloud edge interface, also for the edge apis and developer open edge. Apis enhance the functionalities like the cloud native workloads and for the collaboration with the other health edge projects construing an upstream community.

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We consider cncf and kubernetes community is the upstream communities for us.

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Okay, uh this uh is put everything together. uh If we have time, I can go through some of the details of the new blueprint. How do you feel.

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Yeah, I think that would be good.

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Okay, cool all right, so this one is new: the 5g mac uh size system to support cloud gaming, hd video and live broadcast.

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So the purpose and feature is like: um you can see the purple one uh is provided by china, unicom and channel mobile, like it's called what we call call like a virtual central office, or we can call. This is 5g call and the green part is open source developed by tencent team. They have the edge connected and edge gateways.

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So it is deployed close to the 4g 5g network to perform the traffic, steering the local dns service and traffic management etc. So cloud gaming is very uh popular in azure.

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And hd video and the live broadcasting, especially um there are some gaming. They have a broadcasting. Well, a lot of people are watching how the other people doing the game um this. This is great in deployment.

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And this blue part, we all get it from upstream community, like we have the mac, kubernetes plus container, it's all from the upstream.

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And this is mac, so.

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You know california has the um the fire it got me.

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Allergic um enables the new functionality and business model on the network edge uh in finland. There are many like in winter, the icy road and also the rain gear like all upset and shelby in the highway.

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So it can collect this data and tell the cars okay, okay in front of like how many um meters ahead, there is a reindeer. Please choose another route, something like this and the use case has the fixed installation as part of 5g, and our base station enables like arvr for this. It's very low, latency application and new services.

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This is an extension of the smart city deployment.

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The control software for this function will run on the umac in the industry. 4.0 use case. This call, micromac or umac is deployed as part of 5g network will provide a platform for running service for the factory flow, so in a train the humectant can collect and store surveillance camera data for the later uploading you can see they use kubernetes. uh Sorry k3s contain the orchestra orchestrator.

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I think this is a new sandbox project here in cncf all right, um so the air edge I mentioned about is to establishing and mac platform combined with the ai capability at the edge. You can see this green part. We took docker cartel kvm as part of the iaas.

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It's also open source by by dansko over the edge ote iis for the past layer is a dark blue part providing open apis to connect with the orange part ote web photo. So the use case include like a smooth detection, the classroom concentration analysis and the factory production safety, the personal equipment, usage, analysis and kitchen hygiene monitoring.

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uh It's deployed in several tier one cities in china, and this is what I said, which is very in line with the uh mac. So the purpose features is to uh provide a complete ecosystem for um for the enterprise application on the lightweight 5g charcoal edge.

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It can be leveraged by telco operators to provide the edge computing capability to its uh enterprise users. So this is to be case. um The use cases have three like how to stream your media optimization to improve the user experience in the machine vision on the campus network. This is also good for the enterprise customer for the centralized processing using wireless cameras.

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Last one is mobile office to reduce the overhead of the administration and provides quality outdoor coverage iec type three. um This is a very popular and hot industry in china uh about the aic engine in cloud, so it running only um enabled cloud architecture with gpu vgpuec management. The on base the cloud games need basic cloud features.

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The use cases include android cloud games, it's more for the hyperscaler web scaler and also the aov are android applications needed by both telcos and the.

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Hyperscalers semanic: this is a very specific for the hardware acceleration uh you can see. We have two simple layers: the host layer and desmonic layers. Here in the last release, we have done the os dpdk offload into smanik, but we haven't fully done part of the upf and the vpc functions.

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It's planning to implement the ct features in release. 4.

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Yeah, it's been deployed in china and latin america, okay for some existing r1r2. This is enhancement the connective vehicle I said, established the oss edge mac platform for the v2x application. Development use cases include accurate location. This is 10 times improvement over gps system and better smarter navigation for the real-time traffic. Infer and safe drive improvement in the reduce, reduce the traffic violation.

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All the purple part is provided by originally the seat codes from tencent running on the targe microservice framework and then the contributors all of the work they come and contribute more enhancement. On top of it.

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This arvr oriented edge stack also runs on the task microservice framework. However, the use case and applications are different. You can see like today many students and teachers. They have do the online education, so the virtual classroom, front end for student and for teacher will play a very critical role here and we have around the uh the back end in the data center. So the use case is not only include now available is for the virtual classroom, but for the future releases they're working on the operation, guidelines and sports live and gaming.

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This is about icn, so icn is to adjust overall challenges of edge deployment, uh providing the zero touch, provisioning and kubernetes deployer. The coodie is being containerized and also for the onap for kubernetes and enables nested kubernetes uh used to manage both under cloud and overcloud.

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Airnet has been deployed in many places.

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I think thing probably can comment here. The purpose is to adjust the iot and utp use cases. It's ready to support different iot gateway, use cases for edge computing.

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The video analyst ticks also, I think they are discussing how to integrate the eclipse now they already integrated the hx framework and the portal for iot gateway and opc ua tests enabled on a to buffer. This is a quite mature platform.

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The network cloud powered by tencent fabric tencent fabric is here as a single sdn, so um with tensor fabric as a sdn controller, it can support cni for kubernetes and neutron plugging for openstack. The use of cases include the supports token grade application and a wide variety of vnf and cnfs offers advanced networking features like vrrp attention. Fabric service training also enable the deployment of multiple remote edge sites from a single regional controller.

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So kni this this work is led by colleagues from uh red hat, so uh purpose is to leverage the best practice and tools from kubernetes community uh and also support both containerized and vm based.

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I think openshift plays a critical role here. The use cases include lightweight self-managing cluster, based on the core os and kubernetes support vms, while could be reworked so uh application. Lifecycle management using the operator framework also support real-time workloads using center osrt.

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So uh this is, uh I think, it's very close to what we have done in kubernetes. We integrate everything all right. The 5g ring telco access use case, radio edge cloud, and this one is a very interesting.

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It provides the telco grade edge cloud platform for the near real-time container workloads, so integrator rig read, enables the tokens to deploy the customizations in the form of like x apps. You can see x, apps here that tailored the cell network for specialized the needs of a customer's arm industry.

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So at this automated cd pipeline for testing, and also provide the original controller for the zero touch on this side, regional controller, okay uh cloud blueprint still has the unicycle with rover and srov.

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So originally it was the 18t 10 to have the unicycle rover.

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Unicycle means a rack at the co place has like six to seven servers. uh Rover means a far edge server, just one server uh independently, so uh they use the same same set of software framework to enable the hardware configuration and automated deployment of multiple edge sites from a remote regional controller.

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So it's more for provisioning also support a lot of vm apps. I don't know it's more than 100 or what's. The exact number also supports single server like rover and multi-server like unicycle deployment, and it uses leverage the l-shape.

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So now we are waiting for the new lg versions, so we can integrate and upgrade to the next level all right. So this is network cloud blueprint unicycle with obs wdk.

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This one is different: there's a joint committee effort by ericsson and att integration with aquino feature project to add obvious dpdk, support to l-ship distribution, uh the use cases to support vran and the 5g code teleco-grade applications siba is more for the g pawn uh cases, it's a control plan of the volt.

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So, let's put that away um a provides, an appliance tend to support the owner for civa as the as the enabled and access platform, uh the integration with the original controller for zero touch. That's why ziba and rec actually under the telco appliance brooklyn family, because the button has the ta has thousands of lines of code to do all the common things and zipa and reek in the future. Video cu will be just like appliance for telcos.

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Okay, this is iec type one and two. It integrated many components from cncf and provide um edge stack to uh both the small board and also at the edge server edge. Server is called two type one and type one is for small board.

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So the running environment deployment with multiple vns and also based on kubernetes and catechol, supports telco edge applications, immediate edge cloud deployments with arm and x86.

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um You may be wondering who are contributing to all of this great work, so we got the ana networks, um invite you to provide and support the different blueprints and the proof of concept and deployment like the air edge by baidu and also china mobile, it's more contributing to semanic, android and public cloud edge interface and have their pocket deployment in their network.

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Equinix is more interconnection between telcos and hyperscalers in future way. We have, I think things here. You think you can talk about the contribution for the kobe edge edge, service, propane and add up and huawei has contribution to edit and elt edge, which is uh in line with some mac.

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Ntl contributed to the icn idiot knigh and the uh the robot taxi, the autonomous vehicle uh blueprint and juniper pro contributed to the tension, fabric, blueprints, etc.

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Nokia works on the rig integration into radio edge cloud for the o, ran rig in the live network using this equino rack project and promoted the emerging atmega ecosystem and also do the rain. Intelligent controller project. uh Unitized the nokia airframe, open, edge, server, hardware and nvidia provides older gpu. We need, and also nvidia actually has already acquired.

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The melanox melanox is a great contributor to the uh uh monica blueprints they have been deployed and um the china telcos and uh hyperscalers they're also talking to a hyperscaler in north america, which is also the participants and tencent they provide the connective vehicle and rvr and vitamix size. In their networks.

C

We bank deploy the federated machine learning applications which is part of the ai edge brooklyn family. A wiper support proof concept on the kni r2 release in the 5g lab and in summary, aquino is an edge project targeted to address telco enterprise and industry. Iot use cases.

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There are four missions: one is to use blueprints to create end-to-end configuration for a particular edit edge use case, which is complete, tested production deployable to meet the use case, characteristics and also for the feature project is to leverage the upstream community work as much as possible to avoid any technical depth and work with the broader edge communities to standardize like edge apis like the upstream open source. Community coordination like we have. The iot working group here um encourage the vendors and other communities to validate their edge applications and vnfs on top of equino blueprints.

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uh That's why we have a user, epic user application group.

C

Okay, so the mission we we delivered a fully functional edge, stack to unified multiple sectors and delivered the tested, deployment, ready programs and create a framework for defining and standardizing these apis.

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Again, I want to emphasize we have this closed loop from development, community technology to products that promote markets and have more participation back to the projects which is under an open and neutral governance. That's about it! I'm open for questions.

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So I've got one tina just to clarify what the term blueprint means. I've um I've noticed that some parts of the crano slides give you choices as to different things like tungsten fabric for networking, or I think I saw some other slide that was using calico and which I think is an alternative. Are these blueprints like a tested scenario, where you've made um opinionated choices on the technologies and proven that they work well or is a blueprint? Something else.

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So a blueprint is more like a recipe like this yeah. This recipe, you have your favorite hamburger and the other recipe is another fish hamburger, not a meat hamburger, but they all belong to the same hamburger blueprint family. Does it make sense.

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I think so because there's some of these, where you might have some choices, I mean, even here, I saw for running container workloads that acryno encompasses edgex foundry, which would be one way to run. Containerized, apps and kubernetes is an alternate one. um Am I right in understanding that a crano just is designed to give you the option of choosing what's best for your use case,.

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Yeah so because there's no one-size-fits-all different end users have different use cases, but like we, we group them into eight blueprint, families and 30 blueprints. So this is you have a recipe book. You choose.

A

Okay and then, if someone wants to, they can propose new blueprints too. I assume.

D

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Use cases: okay, yeah, of course,.

A

The one observation I have is there's so much in here. I think I want a couple of weeks to go through all this to understand it, because it's it it's pretty big in scope,.

C

A

You have any recommendations for resources like where you get started on learning about this from a top level and then drilling down, like maybe videos or other presentations that got recorded.

C

uh Yeah we have a recording of uh uh akron webinar. I can send a link to you and uh I think for the for this group. I think this part are probably what you're focusing on right. The iot edge working group.

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Right, um yeah and we've got obviously a lot of people who are focused on kubernetes as part of the solution um we do have both. I think telcos and industrial iot people coming into this group with some regularity.

A

Another thing I'd like to ask is for me one of the ways I like to learn. Things is to try to stand one up on my own, even if it isn't production grade how feasible is it what kind of hardware or infrastructure would you need to get a bare, minimal, akraino um deployment off the ground to try it out and play with it.

C

If you only have raspberry pi try this micromac, it's easy. We have a hackathon the other day and you have. If you have a small iot gateway, you can try isi type one and it at iot gateway. It works fine. If you are lucky to have edge server. All of this, you can try.

B

Yeah depends on the size of the hardware, the memories, what you have.

A

So when the when akraino runs these hackathons, are they part of conferences or uh are they just generally open and online? These days.

C

uh Last year november it was collocated with uh could become in san, diego okay, so hosted by qualcomm in san diego at that time. So it was at the um the cncf web page yeah for the day, zero event.

E

One question for you: uh your deck mentioned an upcoming effort to standardize apis and that kind of stuff.

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I was wondering how you will make that happen, given the number of projects and blueprints that that you have that's a lot of people potentially around the table, so I'm curious about what kind of process you have in place to to try to standardize those those apis and and develop them yeah. That's why we have api subcommittees.

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I'm trying the tsc um sorry, let's directly go to our apis, maybe your favorite yeah. So we have the api.econ.org this for the um akano uh business application developers apis and we also have another one called portal: yeah we're still building that for the infrastructure apis.

C

So let me see here I can find.

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We have seven subcommittees and api is one of them. Those api people like adobe from vmware jing from future way uh they are participating. In this. We have two api work stream. One is for developer facing api workstream and they provide and also the infrastructure, api workstrings.

C

So we have the edge api papers for these two exchange and to manage what we built for the uh blueprints. You can uh have a look here like um yeah. You can see with the technical challenges uh and, what's the enabler to define it, see um we categorize the apis, like for general paths, for technology stacks and for vertical industries yeah, so um different people can find a sweet spot for them to contribute.

E

Okay, that makes sense, and then uh I suppose the way this work is that anyone that's interested well, that's part of the community can can join those of those committees and participate to to the discussion yeah, it's free for everyone, there's no such thing pay to play, okay and and once the the apis are so to speak, adopted by the the subcommittee.

E

uh How do how do you? How do you try? What is there a specific mechanism to drive adoption in the blueprints and projects? I suppose it's not mandatory to to implement them, but how? How do you proceed there.

C

Yeah it's bad directional, so they actually abstract and collector apis from different blueprints and also they give the guidance to the blueprint. I can give an example of one of the blueprints like public cloud edge interface.

C

They provide apis and sdks between toco and the public cloud providers. Right you can see each blueprint has api documentation. It shows what like apis, they are using and some blueprints may use similar apis and this provide the materials for for api subcommittees to abstract word and presented in a more structural way in the white paper. So for the future coming blueprints, they can reference too.

C

Okay, thank you.

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No more questions: I can stop sharing.

A

Okay last call any questions.

A

Okay, well, thank you tina and if you don't mind, maybe you could uh share a link to that deck uh by putting it in the notes or um if you still can't edit, that document, um let us know and we'll put the link in there.

C

Yeah, I don't have a link, I can. I can send the pdf to you or to thing do I have your email address.

A

um I'll send it to you on chat if that's okay, thank you.

A

Yeah you want to talk while I shoot tina.

D

Yeah, so I don't know, uh question uh the call for other items for the agenda. Anybody have anything to discuss today.

D

If not, maybe we can yeah wrap this up. 10 minutes early.

A

Okay, it sounds like none so I'll, stop the recording, but thanks everybody for coming for future meetings. If anybody has anything they want to suggest, please put it on the agenda notes document.

A

If you get it there a little bit in advance, we can try to get speakers, so it doesn't have to be something you present on. It could be just something you're interested in and uh we'll see you at the next meeting in two weeks it's going to be on the china, eastern europe time cycle and four weeks from now on at this time. So thank you. Everybody.

E

Okay thanks a lot.

F

Thank you. Take care.