<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461949897022_13320">Hi all <br></div><div><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461949897022_13448">I am trying to organize a new module called "Cloudlet" in OpenStack. At the Product Working Group and after discussions with Infrastructure team decided to start putting together pieces of past work and plan for new "Cloudlet" project for Edge Cloud Services using Cloudlet in OpenStack.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461949897022_17183"><br></div><div>Background:<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461949897022_13539"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461949897022_13540">As you all know OpenStack is a loosely coupled Infrastructure services that include compute, networking , storage and some global services like ID Management, End Point Management and Image Management services binding them together to serve the Cloud Administrators and Application administrators or end users.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461949897022_13575" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461949897022_14012">OpenStack serves a Central or Core Cloud, Can it serve Edge Cloud?<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461949897022_13956"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461949897022_13947">An Edge Cloud Service is one at the Edge(Provider {Data Center close to Base Station}or Customer Premise{WiFi Access Point ) Gateway and serves the mobile or nomadic user clients through a VM (or composition of VMs) who are authorized to use them by the Provider. This Edge Service through Cloudlet may be a free or paid service as the Provider chooses.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461949897022_14048"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461949897022_14081">Provider uses a standard base VM. We will use VM built from Ubuntu14.04 or Centos 7.3 with minimum 4 or 8GB foot print.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461949897022_14145">These VMs will have running applications within it to service the provider offer to the customer.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461949897022_14186"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461949897022_14199">Two commercial use cases we consider:</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461949897022_14215">1. Smart City Garbage Collection services for the City of San Jose, California<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461949897022_14247" dir="ltr">2. Forest Fire Fighting for state of California.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461949897022_14274" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461949897022_14265" dir="ltr">These are typical utility services for Smart City all over the world as well disaster prevention due to various natural calamity.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461949897022_14295" dir="ltr">One can have slow response times where as the other requires real time response, the orders of hours to minutes is what we state for simplicity but actual applications may seek better latency and through puts as they evolve. Here the idea is to derive work flow and see what APIs will be needed to fulfill these requirements.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461949897022_17138" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461949897022_17699" dir="ltr">We can have a doodle pole once I know how many folks are interested and when shall we meet?<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461949897022_17139" dir="ltr">Agenda for irc meetin on #openstck-dev</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461949897022_17550" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461949897022_17551" dir="ltr">1. What is the state of Cloudlet in world today</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461949897022_17370" dir="ltr">a. Open Edge Computing & OPNFV<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461949897022_17564" dir="ltr">b. OpenFog</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461949897022_17383" dir="ltr">c. Do the use cases listed above is good start point review specs and codes used by OpenStack++ by CMU</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461949897022_17435" dir="ltr">d.Should we proceed with new project Cloudlet & what was Gap analysis feedback from PTLs and cross project teams at Product WOrking Group.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461949897022_17492" dir="ltr">e. Who are willing to volunteer to get the new "Cloudlet" module as initial committers and contributors?</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461949897022_17531" dir="ltr">f. Any other items missed and finally Action Items and plan for next meet (irc)</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461949897022_17630" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461949897022_17565" dir="ltr">Please send your feedback and we will try get O4 requirements of OpenStack before ensuring Cloudlet gets its due at next Barcelona Summit.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461949897022_17631" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461949897022_17605" dir="ltr">Thanks</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461949897022_17731" dir="ltr">Prakash<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461949897022_17077" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461949897022_17093" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461949897022_17071" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461949897022_15756" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461949897022_15692" dir="ltr"><br></div></div></body></html>