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Topics for the edge session at the upcoming PTG
by Ildiko Vancsa 27 Sep '23

27 Sep '23

Hi Everyone, The Project Teams Gathering (PTG)[1] event is only a few weeks away! I booked 2 hours at the event on Monday (October 23) at 1300 UTC - 1500UTC. What topics are you all interested in talking about during the time we have available? I created an etherpad where we can collect topics and take notes during our session at the event: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/ecg-ptg-october-2023 For reference, here are the topics from the last PTG: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/ecg-ptg-march-2023 As well as the Forum session we had at the OpenInfra Summit this year: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/openinfra_ecg_forum_2023 Please let me know if you have any questions. Best Regards, Ildikó [1] https://openinfra.dev/ptg/ ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Next weekly call is on August 14
by Ildiko Vancsa 14 Aug '23

14 Aug '23

Hi All, It is a friendly reminder that our next call is scheduled for August 14 at 6am PST / 1300 UTC. We will be continuing our discussion to plan the working groups roadmap and will talk about plans for the upcoming online OpenInfra PTG as well. Dial-in information and further information about the meetings are here: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Meetings Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Next weekly call is on August 7
by Ildiko Vancsa 18 Jul '23

18 Jul '23

Hi, Vacation season kicked in and a couple of you let me know that they will not be around in the next two weeks. To accommodate to people’s availability, I went ahead and canceled the next two calls (July 24 and July 31). __The next weekly call will be on August 7 at 6am PST / 1300 UTC.__ We will be talking about the working group’s roadmap and plans. For more information, please see the working group's wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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What's next for the OpenInfra Edge Computing Group?! - INPUT NEEDED
by Ildiko Vancsa 14 Jul '23

14 Jul '23

Hi, I’m reaching out to you as a follow up to our weekly call this Monday. During the meeting we had a brief recap of the recent OpenInfra Summit and then we started to look into what’s next for the working group. We started the latter topic with questions, such as: * Is the “edge” still a relevant topic? - Is it a specific enough topic for a working group like ours? * What challenges people are facing that are in scope for our group? * How can we make the working group more relevant to people in the industry today and onwards? We then continued with taking a deeper dive into finding answers, and asking more questions. We touched on the following topics: * Topic areas that have been interesting and in scope for the WG - Automation - Orchestration - Distributed Infrastructure ~ Does not include IoT, which was acceptable to people on the call * Challenges we had in the past with setting up PoCs - Setting up proof-of-concept environments is very challenging in itself - We didn’t always have the resources, or expertise or either - Could this be something to tackle in another way? * Idea - Talk about relevant projects in the space in a more practical way, including ~ Demos ~ Pros and cons ~ Challenges it addresses or that it still has - Provide information that a PoC would give, without setting them up ourselves As a next step __we also need YOUR input!__ What do you think about the above questions and idea? What would you be interested in hearing and talking about? What are your challenges that you need solutions for, that this group could help you with? I’m looking forward to hearing from you! Thanks and Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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OpenInfra Summit session recordings and follow ups
by Ildiko Vancsa 14 Jul '23

14 Jul '23

Hi, I’m reaching out to you with further resources from the recent OpenInfra Summit. The conference session recordings are now available! You can find the videos from the event here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOmoFOLaR7A&list=PLKqaoAnDyfgqsxQDbLj4LVpKi… I also collected session recordings that are more relevant in the edge computing context: * vGPUs with OpenStack Nova - https://youtu.be/--LNpNLSpss * Pushing OpenStack Workloads to the Edge! - https://youtu.be/HfuagLN5pKc * Living on the Edge, Kubernetes as Software Delivery Mechanism for the Far Edge - https://youtu.be/I3A48Xz8V8A * An OpenStack Powered Edge Service, IoT, Smart Cities - https://youtu.be/jTTzDzbnfyE * StarlingX presentations: - A private 5G campus network enabled and powered by OpenStack and StarlingX - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnnw_9UIoS0&list=PLKqaoAnDyfgqsxQDbLj4LVpKi… - StarlingX: Next generation security with Zero Trust architecture - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVqjxQ-Q9nc&list=PLKqaoAnDyfgqsxQDbLj4LVpKi… - StarlingX at scale – Infrastructure management of 10s of 1000s of geographically distributed clouds - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bJ1Oq75ER4&list=PLKqaoAnDyfgqsxQDbLj4LVpKi… - StarlingX: Next generation infrastructure for cloud native - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOmoFOLaR7A&t=1980s - Enabling the Intelligent Edge with StarlingX - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y33zGI6m0G0&list=PLKqaoAnDyfgqsxQDbLj4LVpKi… - StarlingX Evolution - New Deployment Architectures - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFVLnZASIIw&list=PLKqaoAnDyfgqsxQDbLj4LVpKi… - Power Efficiency in vRAN and Open RAN Deployments: Arm and StarlingX Collaboration - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf6V5M1URzg&list=PLKqaoAnDyfgqsxQDbLj4LVpKi… - StarlingX: Using OSTree Atomic Updates to Drastically Reduce Outage Times for Upgrades of Remote Single-Server Edge Clouds - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXCz6vDzM8U&list=PLKqaoAnDyfgqsxQDbLj4LVpKi… - From Legacy to Agility: Why stx-openstack and Containers are the Key to Modernizing your IT Infrastructure - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PhQbGQd8Vs&list=PLKqaoAnDyfgqsxQDbLj4LVpKi… - Using enclave technology to help secure secrets in a distributed world - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN7sfkzfl68&list=PLKqaoAnDyfgqsxQDbLj4LVpKi… - Full Featured PTP in the Cloud for Telcos - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsJHbWRPW4Y&list=PLKqaoAnDyfgqsxQDbLj4LVpKi… I hope you find this information useful. Do you have a favorite session from the above list or the overall OpenInfra Summit schedule? Are there any sessions that you would be interested in following up on? For instance, inviting the speakers to one of the upcoming weekly calls and discuss their presentation topics further? Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Next call is on July 10
by Ildiko Vancsa 27 Jun '23

27 Jun '23

Hi, The meeting next Monday (July 3) will be canceled, as many people take time off for the 4th of July celebrations on Tuesday. The next meeting will be on July 10 at 6am PST/ 1300 UTC: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Meetings Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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OpenInfra Summit Edge Forum session
by Ildiko Vancsa 27 Jun '23

27 Jun '23

Hi, I’m reaching out to you with a brief summary of the Edge Forum session we had at the recent OpenInfra Summit. We had a Forum session that was focusing on edge use cases, challenges and practices that people are currently using. Our main discussion topics included: * Use cases - IoT + There was a talk at the event about IoTronic, the recording will be available shortly - Smart Cities - Private Mobility and Wireless - Machine in the machine, DPU, etc * Hardware management - 5G use case with RUs and DUs, where it can get challenging to manage accelerators + Use of Cyborg and/or Ironic? - Evolution of Smart NICs - How to handle lifecycle management? - Ironic + Activities around managing “child” devices + Virtual-media-based deployment to manage remote sites and devices For further notes, please the session etherpad: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/r.037d1bd4a6e4f376527f17f48810bb07 We will keep discussing the above and further topics on our weekly calls. The next call is scheduled for July 10 at 6am PST / 1300 UTC: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group#Meetings Best Regards, Ildikó ——— Ildikó Váncsa Director of Community Open Infrastructure Foundation

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Will not be able to attend todays meeting
by Cohen, Beth F 19 Jun '23

19 Jun '23

See you next week -- <http://www.verizon.com> Beth Cohen SDN Product Strategy Verizon Business Group M +17814338553 <https://www.verizon.com>

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Link to article about ChatGPT taking people's jobs
by Cohen, Beth F 05 Jun '23

05 Jun '23

As mentioned on our call this AM. This is a gift link, so it does not require a subscription or login. https://wapo.st/3Chdm3i ChatGPT took their jobs. Now they walk dogs and fix air conditioners. Technology used to automate dirty and repetitive jobs. Now, artificial intelligence chatbots are coming after high-paid ones. By Pranshu Verma <https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/pranshu-verma/?itid=ai_top_vermap> and Gerrit De Vynck <https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/gerrit-de-vynck/?itid=ai_top_devynckg> June 2, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EDT -- <http://www.verizon.com> Beth Cohen SDN Product Strategy Verizon Business Group M +17814338553 <https://www.verizon.com>

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Updated PTG Blog
by Cohen, Beth F 21 Apr '23

21 Apr '23

Folks - Here is my take on the Blog post. Did some edits and consolidation. Feel free to add to what I did if you wish. https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/ecg-ptg-march-2023-blog Connecting the Pieces - Edge Infrastructures and Landscape The OpenInfra Edge Computing Group met online at the recent Project Teams Gathering (PTG) event to grab the opportunity to dissect the edge computing space even further. During this PTG, we explored activities both in Europe as well as globally. This time the focus was on what connects multiple edges together, both from infrastructure and social perspective. Our session started with a series of presentations, delivered by Andreas Florath (Deutsche Telekom), to introduce the EU Cloud Alliance (European Alliance for Industrial Data, Edge and Cloud) and the current work to build a federation of edge systems in Europe. The EU Commission supports this effort and many other projects, such as Gaia-X and Horizon Europe. These projects typically have a focus on different, but connected areas, such as data, automotive or the cloud-to-edge continuum. The EU Cloud Alliance assists the EU Commission by supporting the creation and deployment of next generation cloud capacities for the public and private sector. Their objective is to specify the requirements for next-generation of secure, low-carbon and interoperable cloud and edge services and infrastructure, based on the three pillars of cloud, compute, networking and storage. The EU Cloud Alliance has an Edge/Cloud Working Group, that organized its activities into task forces. The scope that these groups cover ranges from the cloud and edge landscape in Europe, through cybersecurity up to application and data services. The Alliance executes its mission through activities such as: - Giving recommendations in the form of use cases, technology roadmaps and more - Determining challenges for requirements and standards of cloud services - Keeping a focus on data requirements, especially in how to best host sensitive data, which comes with high security requirements Open source plays a key role in the activities and projects of the EU Commission, which is often reflected in the projects’ requirements. Some even set it as a goal to open source everything. Funding levels also vary based on the the amount of open source components used and produced as part of the projects' artifacts. After the overview of the EU Cloud Alliance, there was a review of the ongoing work defining and building a federation of edge-cloud continuum in Europe. By 2030, 10000 climate-neutral, highly-secure edge nodes are planned to be deployed throughout Europe. The scope of the federation covers the end-to-end infrastructure. The scale of infrastructure reflects on the edge-cloud continuum, as these nodes need to be connected and managed without any artificial separation within the elements. Federation is used to create the connection and provide access to the components. While these components are not managed by one singe provider but rather many of them, the aim is to have access to them through a single platform. If the implementation is successful, the cloud federation layer will hide the underlying infrastructure providers. It will also provide a consistent platform, as well as a consistent experience for all application providers and users. While that might seem like a worthy goal, can one platform rule them all? There are a few obstacles to overcome first: - SD-WAN limitations: if the number of nodes grows too big, it will prompt the need for a hierarchical system. - The EU-wide scope also posts a complication as there are multiple infrastructure and application providers that may or may not span across country borders. The layers of the stack consist of the ‘infrastructure provider’ layer, the ‘edge-cloud federation’ layer, the ‘application provider’ layer, and a ‘marketplace’ layer, with the ‘users’ being displayed on top. The layers demonstrate the complexity of the underlying systems, while also showing the intention to make it user friendly. The requirements include of course security, similarly to other edge related discussions, on the top of the list and hardware independence. The biggest challenge that needs to be addressed is how to achieve fault tolerance throughout the system. While in Europe the intent is to build an agnostic solution that uses different open source building blocks. there are other efforts in the open source ecosystem to address federation-related functionality. Ongoing work in the global community, includes the Anuket project, as well as MEF, where the focus is on defining APIs to provide standard access points that can be used to connect the elements. There are also parallels efforts, like grid computing, that was in fashion a bit over a decade ago, or Wireguard, which is a de-facto overlay standard for networking. Other groups are also working on this effort -- somewhat independently at this point, include GSMA, which is proposing a federation API, which is already partially implemented. The GSMA has a strong telecom focus and a private membership, which is not always seen as desireable with the wider Open Source community. Beyond GSMA, the CAMARA project and TMForum are groups that are working on API-slicing proposals. It has been true for a while, but the Edge is a very fragmented and overly complex ecosystem. Just looking at the projects within OpenInfra there are many that can and are used to support Edge architectures and use cases. Some, like OpenStack and StarlingX, are already utilized in edge computing use cases. For instance, OpenStack was utilized for a uCPE use case before the OpenInfra Edge Computing Group was even created. StarlingX is powering large, distributed vRAN deployments around the globe. For containerized edge applications, Kata Containers, which is a container runtime that delivers security and speed in one package through creating a fusion between virtual machines and containers, is a valid choice. It provides increased security, compared to traditional containers, and the ability to use a different kernel than what is running on the host machine, it can be a very appealing solution for the edge space. The Kata Containers community also collaborates with the Confidential Computing group in the CNCF ecosystem, which has been gaining increased community interest recently. One member of the discussion shared a document that documents over 150 open source projects and libraries that are relevant for the edge. How many of these projects are primarily relevant for edge? A consolidation of projects in this space is long overdue. Last, but not least, it has become increasingly clear that today’s systems with their massive scale and distributed nature create a level of complexity that is hard to manage. While simplicity is always a goal, it is not something that can be accomplished for an end-to-end infrastructure, with out much more community will and support than what currently exists. However while systems can remain complex, managing them doesn’t have to be as long as there is a focus on increasing the tools to support automation, then operating and maintaining a distributed edge infrastructure could become a relatively easy task. EDGE COMPUTING GROUP CTA AND REFERENCES + ADD LINKS THROUGHOUT -- <http://www.verizon.com> Beth Cohen SDN Product Strategy Verizon Business Group M +17814338553 <https://www.verizon.com>

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