[adding the list address back end, I was the one who dropped it by accident] On 14/10/20 08:42 +0200, Ildiko Vancsa wrote:

Hi Tom,

Sounds good! I think that topic would resonate well with people in the edge wg and it would be an interesting discussion especially when it comes to the containers part.

Adjusting to what Brian was saying in his mail if that works for you too we could start with storage discussions on Monday to see how the landscape looks and what the needs and thoughts are. On top of that if needed we could go into cross-project sync with Manila to sync on the project specific roadmaps and action items if any on Wednesday. Does that make sense?

Thanks, Ildikó

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On Oct 13, 2020, at 23:14, Tom Barron <tpb@dyncloud.net> wrote:

On 13/10/20 16:48 -0400, Brian Rosmaita wrote:

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On 10/7/20 11:27 AM, Ildiko Vancsa wrote:

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Hi,

We’ve started to have discussions in the area of object storage needs and solutions for edge use cases at the last PTG in June. I’m reaching out with the intention to continue this chat at the upcoming PTG in a few weeks.

The OSF Edge Computing Group is meeting during the first three days of the PTG like last time. We are planning to have edge reference architecture models and testing type of discussions in the first two days (October 26-27) and have a cross-project and cross-community day on Wednesday (October 28). We would like to have a dedicated section for storage either on Monday or Tuesday.

I think it might also be time to revisit other storage options as well if there’s interest.

What do people think?

I asked around the Cinder community a bit, and we don't have any particular topics to discuss at this point. But if you scheduled the storage discussion on Monday, some of us would be interested in attending just to hear what edge people are currently talking about storage-wise. (Cinder is meeting Tuesday-Friday.)

If something does come up that the Edge group would like to talk over with the Cinder team, we can make time for that on Wednesday.

cheers, brian

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For reference: * Our planning etherpad is here: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/ecg-vptg-october-2020 * Notes from the previous PTG is here: https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/ecg_virtual_ptg_planning_june_2020

Thanks, Ildikó

Ildiko,

We in Manila have discussed Edge deployment of shared file system service quite a bit. Currently we think of the problem primarily as how to provide safe, multi-tenant shared file system infrastructure local to each Edge site so that the data path remains available to consumers at the Edge site even when it is disconnected from the core. We'd like the storage to be available both to workloads running in VMs and to workloads running in containers at the edge (whether the containers reside in VMs or on bare metal edge hosts).

I'm interested in calibrating this view of the problem set with actual Edge use cases and deployment perspectives and I'm sure Manila folks (like our PTL Goutham Pacha Ravi) would be happy to join in a cross-project session.

-- Tom Barron