Objectives
- Reduce friction to deployment of LF Edge Templates
- Provide a centralized location for all deployable Templates
Definition
- Template = software + configuration
Concept
- Provide (potential hierarchy of) recipes for deployment of templates
- For Kubernetes based projects (like Akraino) this could be a set of Helm charts or k8s manifests
- For other container based projects (which don't necessarily have K8S) this could be docker-compose
- For bare-metal deployments, we are open to suggestions on potential solutions
- Have a web-page (per template) which consolidates these along with simple instructions and potential parameters
Examples
- Proposal is described here: https://github.com/ericvh/lfedge-catalog-proposal
- An end-to-end example with cloud and edge components is shown here: https://github.com/ericvh/lfedge-catalog-proposal/blob/update/SMARTER_example.md
- artifacthub.io : maintains a catalog of public helm charts and has a concept of organizations (so we could host under an LFEdge organization there)
- hub.balena.io: has a similar structure to the above, but actually couples a container recipe with a platform to provide a burnable sdcard
- rancher provides a git repository of recipes: https://github.com/rancher/community-catalog which are used by their platform to provide catalog based installation
- portal.sagecontinuum.org maintains a catalog of edge deployable applications for their smarter-cities project
- portainer.io maintains git repositories of templates which are then deployable using their portainer.io tool (including the community edition)
Requirements
- For helm appropriate projects (those that use kubernetes as a base layer)
- helm-ifying (as necessary) template components
- umbrella helm which deploys those components
- role-designation methodology for multi-node blueprints (or even to specify cloud-side versus edge-side)
- host on a catalog platform
- For other projects
- TBD - options include using things like portainer.io or just docker-compose, but unaware of a artifacthub.io equivalent for those so maybe just github/gitlab?
Current Status
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5 Comments
Eric Van Hensbergen
Meeting Notes:
Eric Van Hensbergen
Meeting Notes:
Eric Van Hensbergen
I've updated the github project with a tutorial for authoring, packaging, publishing, and indexing helm charts:
Kathy Giori
Brief discussion this morning. Now that Eric initiated some real demos (see above), time to spread the word and build up the catalog!
Also, for anyone attending LF ONE Summit, meet at LF Edge booth during Tuesday afternoon coffee break.
Guide to LF Edge content:
https://www.lfedge.org/2022/09/07/your-guide-to-lf-edge-related-sessions-at-one-summit/
Fukano Haruhisa
Meeting notes:2022/11/22
We will explain our activity at LF Edge Strategic Plan Commettee meeting on Dec 8 7:00am.
Kathy Giori will update LF Edge SPC - Working Deck - Google スライド.