Shay Naeh, Senior Architect in the Cloudify CTO Office's talk from Open Networking Summit Europe 2018. Talking open source edge networking, federated Kubernetes and cloud native stacks - and how to truly achieve an open edge stack.

1. ONS Amsterdam September 2018
The Journey to Edge
Orchestration
Shay Naeh @ Cloudify

2. Agenda
➔ The journey to edge computing
➔ Classification: Hybrid, Federated and Edge Cloud
➔ Sample use cases
➔ Challenges
➔ Orchestration Models
➔ Best Practices

3. Back to the Future….
Source: Peter Levin, “Return to the Edge, end of cloud computing”

4. Hybrid Cloud
On-PremAWS
EKS
GCP/GKE
https://cloudify.co/knowledge-base/multi-cloud-governance-solution/

5. Federated Kubernetes
On-PremAWS
EKS
GCP/GKE

6. Multiple Clusters
➔ Redundancy
➔ Load balancing & performance
➔ Proximity

7. Edge Cloud

8. Mobile Edge Computing
The Edge Computing Market Driver
The challenge of Enterprise IT becomes vastly harder as we move to distributed cloud and edge computing
IT Accelerated
Video
Vehicles
Health Retail
Carching
Services
Augmented
Reality
Network
Cloud Standarts
Faster Time
To Market
New Market
Revenue
Generation
Proximity Virtualization
QOE Low
Latency
Industry
Collaboration
Many Use
Cases
Business
Transformation
Technical
Integration
MEC

9. Move Workloads to the
Edge
➔ Latency
➔ Data Tsunami

10. Edge Computing
Edge computing is a method of
optimising cloud computing
systems by performing data
processing and real time decisions
at the edge of the network, near
the source of the data.
Real-time Data Driven
1000’s new and different kind of
“Data Centers”
● Cloudlets
● Edge Data Centers
● uCPE
● Cloud in a box

11. The bigger problem: 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.)

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The Edge Is Here
“The edge will be even bigger than the cloud” -Michael Dell
CAGR
32.99%
Market Highlights
Edge computing solutions are widely
adopted across the manufacturing sector
IT & telecom segment is anticipated to
contribute to the growth of the market
Large enterprises segment is dominating
the market
Healthcare & life sciences segment is
anticipated to be the fastest-growing
segment
“The edge will be even bigger than the cloud” -Michael Dell

13. The Future of Networking: Serverless Edge
Reference: 5G To The Edge With AT&T: A Fully Orchestrated Open Source Stack

14. 14
ONAP
Edge1 Edge2 Edge3
SDC
1
2
3

15. Car
Endpoint
Car
Endpoint
15
Demo Overview
MQTT
Gateway
VerneMQ
FaaS Engine
Kubeless
Persistence
MongoDB
MQTT
Gateway
VerneMQ
FaaS Engine
Kubeless
Car
Endpoint
Car
Endpoint
Orchestrator
Cloudify
Monitoring
Grafana Prometheus
MQTT
Publish
MQTT
Subscribe
MQTT
Publish
MQTT
Publish
Webhook
Webhook

16. Edge Orchestration Challenges
• Complex modeling
• Service composition of multiple masters / edges
• No Networking - Autonomous
• Resource constraints
• Security
• Bandwidth cost, capacity….
• Scale
• Satellite coverage

17. Challenge (Cont)
● Management
● Security
● Networking
● Capacity
● Scale
● …..Orchestration ?

18. Scaling Challenges
• Auto Scaling of Kubeless FaaS
- Using multiple PODs as load increases
• Auto Scaling of Microservices
- Generating more replicas as load increases
• Auto Scaling of Kubernetes Cluster
- Adding more Kubernetes Nodes

19. TOSCA - Edge Automation at Scale
The Boeing 787 could not be produced
without standard modeling
Example from the Manufacturing Industry
Cloudify
Orchestration & Management

20. Service Instantiation
Blueprint Parser
Deployment
Graph
Service
Blueprint
Deployment
Inputs

21. Edge Computing Orchestration
Portal Orchestration Integration
Task
Broker
Controller
Controller as a
remote task relay and
Network bridge
Delegation /
Autonomous
Execution
Smart (Autonomous) Cloud/Edge
Simple (Connected) Cloud/Edge
Local
Controller
Controller Monitoring and
Management
Local CLoud

22. Cross Edge Workflows
Execute workflow on
Master Orchestrator
Execute workflow on
relevant Edge
Orchestrators
Execute operation on
relevant VNFs

23. 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 / Symmetric)

24. 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

25. Micro Service Pattern
TOSCA Blueprints
Composite Service
Deployment Update

26. Service Composition
Proxy Pattern
+ =
Requirements / Capabilities
TOSCA Topology

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

28. Thank You

29. Symmetric Edge Clouds

30. Bridging the Edge and the Cloud