Cheops - Can a "service mesh" be the right solution for the Edge?
Channel: OpenInfra Foundation
Date: 2022-06-17

How to administrate and use edge infrastructures is still an open question. After analyzing and proposing various strategies for almost 6 years, academics have identified an interesting approach to turn any kind of micro-service based application "edge compliant". One instance of an application is deployed at each edge location, making the system robust to network partitions (local requests can still be satisfied), and collaboration between instances can be programmed outside of the application in a generic manner thanks to a service mesh.

Materialized in Cheops, our prototype allows DevOps to deal with the location of application instances in REST requests using redirection technics. Cheops decorates the original API with a dedicated language and proposes various collaboration mechanisms, allowing for instance to share resources across sites or create/manage replicas in an straightforward manner. We demonstrate the relevance of our approach in the OpenStack and Kubernetes ecosystems.

Speakers:
Geo Johns Antony
Marie Delavergne
Baptiste Jonglez

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