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OpenNESS Network Edge - Enhanced Platform Awareness Features supported

• Overview
• Features

Overview

Enhanced Platform Awareness features are supported in OnPremises using Kubernetes infrastructure. Some of the EPA features are supported as Kubernetes jobs, some as daemon sets, some as normal pods and some as Kubernetes device plugins. The overall objective of EPA for network edge is to expose the platform capability to the edge cloud orchastrator for better performance, consistency and reliability.

Features

Following are the EPA features supported in OpenNESS Network Edge

• openness-hugepage.md: Hugepages support for Edge Applications and Network Functions
• openness-node-feature-discovery.md: Edge Node hardware and software feature discovery support in OpenNESS
• openness-sriov-multiple-interfaces.md: Dedicated Physical Network interface allocation support for Edge Applications and Network Functions
• openness-dedicated-core.md: Dedicated CPU core allocation support for Edge Applications and Network Functions
• openness-bios.md: Edge platform BIOS and Firmware and configuration support in OpenNESS
• openness-fpga.md: Dedicated FPGA IP resource allocation support for Edge Applications and Network Functions
• openness-topology-manager.md: Resource Locality awareness support through Topology manager in OpenNESS