CDS and Terraform for Multi-Domain Orchestration and Interconnection of Cloud and Edge
Most practical deployments of edge infrastructure and applications are hybrid in nature, where an application deployed at the edge often needs to access services residing in the core cloud. In addition, there is a need for efficient and performant interconnection between edge and cloud as well as between the distributed edges proximal to end-users. However, each individual service domain (e.g. edge, cloud, network fabric) often present their own specific APIs and/or other provisioning methods (e.g. CLI), thus making end-to-end deployment challenging both in complexity and in time. Therefore a multi-domain orchestration solution is required to handle edge, cloud, and interconnection in a uniform and consistent manner. Terraform is rapidly emerging as a common way to orchestrate and configure services rather than having to deal with APIs for each different domain: public or private cloud, edge, and interconnection. In this presentation and hands-on demo, Equinix and Aarna Networks will show how an end-to-end application can be deployed, configured, and interconnected between the edge and core clouds by using ONAP/CDS orchestration in combination with Terraform.
Aarna Networks is an open-source software company. Our Aarna Networks Multi-Cluster Orchestration Platform (AMCOP) product performs orchestration, management, and automation of cloud-native 5G network services and edge computing applications.
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