Cloudify talks about how a real company is building edge computing with cloud-native, multi-cloud orchestration

1. June 2017
Model Driven Orchestration in
a World of Many Clouds

2. Agenda
• Today’s world - Centralized Cloud
• Hybrid Clouds
• The return to the Edge
• Orchestration Models

3. Centralized
Source - AWS
100’s of Centralized clouds.
Tightly controlled,
managed, orchestrated
and secured

4. Fog Computing

5. WARNING: Data Tsunami ahead
Billions of connected devices
that are generating vast
amount of data at the edges of
the network.
● IOT
● Mobility
● AI / AR
● M2M
● Smart “Things” (Buildings, airplanes,
ships, places etc.)

6. Edge Computing
Edge computing is a method of
optimising cloud computing
systems by performing data
processing at the edge of the
network, near the source of the
data.
1000’s new and different kind of
“Data Centers”
● Cloudlets
● (M) Edge Devices
● uCPE
● Cloud in a box

7. Distributed

8. Houston we have a problem…..
● Management
● Security
● Networking
● Capacity
● Scale
● …..Orchestration ?

9. Multi Cloud Orchestration
Portal Orchestration Integration
Edge
Cloud
Private
Cloud
Public
Cloud
Controller
Controller
Delegation /
Autonomous
Execution
Controller as a
remote task relay
and
Network bridge
Direct via
Cloud APIs
or plugin

10. uCPE - A Real use case of Edge Computing
x86 HW
Plain old
“COTS”
Virt Layer
Apps VNFs
mgmt module
UI, CLI, API,
Netconf ?
How many can we manage ?
10,000 ?
1,000,000 ?
10,000,000 ?
?

11. uCPE - A Real use case of Edge Computing
x86 HW
Plain old
“COTS”
Virt Layer
Apps VNFs
Portal Orchestration Integration
Controller
New App or
Service
1
Admin on-board new
application or service
and upload to master
service orchestrator
2
Master Service
Orchestrator instantiate
service and send
relevant blueprint to
remote (edge)
orchestrator
4
Service status, metrics
and KPI sent back to
Master Orchestrator
Local orchestrator
instantiate the app or
service using local
execution / plugins
3
Automated and Orchestrated
100% “Humanless” process

12. NG Edge Computing Platforms
Portal Orchestration Integration
x86 HW
Virt Layer
Apps VNFs
• Autonomous
• Self Healing
• Support disconnected (headless) operation
• Modular
• API Enabled
• SDN Enabled
• Based on Distributed Architecture (Orchestration
Hierarchy)

13. What can we do with it ?
Network
Branch Office
Mass Transportation
Energy Industry
Point of presence
Smart homes / cities
Military / Defence

14. Thank you