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On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 11:56 AM Jim Rollenhagen <jim at jimrollenhagen.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 10:23 AM Dmitry Tantsur <dtantsur at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> Hi all,
>>
>> Sorry for chiming in really late in this topic, but I think $subj is worth
>> discussing until we settle harder on the potentially confusing terminology.
>>
>> I think the difference between "Edge" and "Far Edge" is too vague to use these
>> terms in practice. Think about the "edge" metaphor itself: something rarely has
>> several layers of edges. A knife has an edge, there are no far edges. I imagine
>> zooming in and seeing more edges at the edge, and then it's quite cool indeed,
>> but is it really a useful metaphor for those who never used a strong microscope? :)
>>
>> I think in the trivial sense "Far Edge" is a tautology, and should be avoided.
>> As a weak proof of my words, I already see a lot of smart people confusing these
>> two and actually use Central/Edge where they mean Edge/Far Edge. I suggest we
>> adopt a different terminology, even if it less consistent with typical marketing
>> term around the "Edge" movement.
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>
> FWIW, we created rough definitions of "edge" and "far edge" during the edge WG session in Denver.
> It's mostly based on latency to the end user, though we also talked about quantities of compute resources, if someone can find the pictures.

Perhaps these are the pictures Jim was referring to?
 https://www.dropbox.com/s/255x1cao14taer3/MVP-Architecture_edge-computing_PTG.pptx?dl=0#

I'm involved in some TripleO work called the split control plane:
  https://specs.openstack.org/openstack/tripleo-specs/specs/rocky/split-controlplane.html

After the PTG I saw that the split control plane was compatible with
the type of deployment discussed at the edge WG session in Denver and
described the compatibility at:
  https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/tripleo-edge-working-group-split-control-plane

> See the picture and table here: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Edge_Computing_Group/Edge_Reference_Architectures#Overview
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>> Now, I don't have really great suggestions. Something that came up in TripleO
>> discussions [1] is Core/Hub/Edge, which I think reflects the idea better.
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>
> I'm also fine with these names, as they do describe the concepts well. :)
>
> // jim

I'm fine with these terms too. In split control plane there's a
deployment method for deploying a central site and then deploying
remote sites independently. That deployment method could be used to
deploy  Core/Hub/Edge sites too. E.g. deploy the Core using Heat stack
N. Deploy a Hub using stack N+1 and then deploy an Edge using stack
N+2 etc.

  John

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>> I'd be very interested to hear your ideas.
>>
>> Dmitry
>>
>> [1] https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/tripleo-edge-mvp
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