Hi Folks,
During the last summit, we suggested to create a new working group that deals
with the massively distributed use case:
How can OpenStack be "slightly" revised to operate Fog/Edge Computing
infrastructures, i.e. infrastructures composed of several sites.
The first meeting we did in Austin showed us that additional materials were
mandatory to better understand the scope as well as the actions we can perform
in this working group.
After exchanging with different persons and institutions, we have identified
several actions that we would like to achieve and that make the creation of
such a working group relevant from our point of view.
Among the list of possible actions, we would like to identify major scalability
issues and clarify intra-site vs inter-site exchanges between the different
services of OpenStack in a multi-site context (i.e. with the vanilla OpenStack
code).
Such information will enable us to better understand how and where each service
should be deployed and whether it should be revised.
We have started an action with the Performance WG with the ultimate goal to
analyse how OpenStack behaves from the performance aspect as well as the
interactions between the various services in such a context.
Meanwhile, we saw during this summer the Clynt's proposal about the
Architecture WG.
Although we are very exciting about this WG (we are convinced it will be
valuable for the whole community), we are wondering
whether the actions we envision in the Massively distributed WG will not
overlap the ones (scalability, multi-site operations ...) that could be
performed in the Archictecture WG.
The goal of this email is to :
(i) understand whether the fog/edge computing use case is in the scope of
the Architecture WG.
(ii) if not, whether it makes sense to create a working group that focus on
scalability and multi-site challenges (Folks from Orange Labs and British
Telecom for instance already told us that they are interesting by such a
use-case).
(iii) what is the best way to coordinate our efforts with the actions
performed in other WGs such as the Performance and Architecture ones (e.g.,
actions performed/decisions taken in the Architecture WG can have impacts on
the massively distributed WG and thus drive the way we should perform actions
to progress to the Fog/Edge Computing target)
According to the feedback, we will create dedicated wiki pages for the
massively distributed WG.
Remarks/comments welcome.
Ad_rien_
Further information regarding the Fog/Edge Computing use-case we target is
available at http://beyondtheclouds.github.io
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