edge

Another day, another "Edge" Architecture. This time let's see how the minimum all-in-one OCP/OCS/CNV would have to look like.

But first what are the key benefits:

• Small footprint

• High Availability

• Virtualization with VM HA

• HCI storage

• Best containers platform there is

Okay, I got you this far, let me reward you now with a short 2 minutes demo on how this is going to work once you're done:

This is part 4 in the series of BareMetal-as-a-Service with Ironic. In this article I will focus on highly distributed architectures. Baremetal cloud as a service for the edge and large environments.

What would be a good use of this architecture? I can think of few examples:

- managing lifecycle of hundreds of individual x86 servers monitoring production of the goods in manufacturing industry 

- almost any x86 based IOT use case

- managing highly distributed infrastructure sitting in stores for the large retailers

- managing unreleased server equipment directly...Read more

I have hesitated to post anything about Red Hat OpenStack Edge since it got introduced in OSP13 simply because I found it quite difficult to consume. Also the storage situation back then was .. not complete. Things improved overtime and now with OSP16.1 we can deploy our private cloud with the following features (which imho finally makes it production ready.):

- ceph storage at the edge / dcn

- one stack per site for better management and lifecycle

- improved routed networking configuration

- image caching at the edge

So why would anyone...Read more