Open Source Summit Japan & Automotive Linux Summit 2021

This abstract is about Centaurus an open-source project that brings a next-generation cloud for Edge and 5G. We are driving innovation across multiple industries to offers high scalability for large cloud infrastructure. 5G and edge computing are two inextricably linked technologies: they are both poised to significantly improve the performance of applications and enable huge amounts of data to be processed in real-time. Under Linux foundation, Centaurus is an open-source project that is driving the top industry requirements for Edge and 5G. We would like to introduce Centaurus an open-source solution for large-scale new cloud infrastructure. It helps to seamlessly extend from cloud to edge, and natively manage edge workloads from the cloud. Edge computing matters because it increases the speed and effectiveness at which businesses can respond to information. • Edge computing and 5G are increasingly being deployed. Centaurus platform intelligently coordinates resource allocation between cloud data centers and edge sites. • Our design aims to support 300,000 hosts per region and 100,000 hosts per cluster. • Application orchestration is the norm in the container world — such as replica set, etc. Centaurus can orchestration paradigms also be applied to VM applications.

The traditional computer architectures are no longer able to keep pace with ever-growing demand. The future computing infrastructure needs to be dynamic, accelerated and secure in nature, just like the containerized software today is composable and on-demand. Cloud platform is expanding to the edge of the network while supporting data and AI workloads requires new approaches to hardware. Network workloads such as Open vRAN also require new approaches to hardware in order to replace traditional vendor specific hardware. System architectures are transitioning away from the general purpose computing model. Adding more CPU is not sufficient and offloading with traditional hardware acceleration approaches cannot meet the demand. Some communities such as IOWN Global Forum already started to address disaggregated and heterogeneous computing with common hardware chassis. This session elaborates system architecture innovation in open source and how kubernetes and Linux with heterogeneous composable computing are enabling these exciting new capabilities in disaggregated infrastructure. We will discuss vision, use cases, architectural approach, and future with valid examples.