Kubernetes Athens vol16 (online)

MicroShift: a lightweight OpenShift for the Edge

Edge devices deployed out in the field pose very different operational, environmental, and business challenges from those of cloud computing. These motivate different engineering trade-offs for Kubernetes at the far edge than for cloud or near-edge scenarios. MicroShift is a project that is exploring how OpenShift (Red Hat's Kubernetes distribution) can be optimized for small form factor and edge computing devices. MicroShift has been designed to make frugal use of system resources, tolerate severe network constraints and provide a consistent development and management experience with standard OpenShift. In addition, MicroShift runs on various architectures (x86_64, ARM, ARM64 , RISC-V 64, PPC64LE), many of which are highly used in edge computing scenarios.

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A note on our speakers of the day:

# Ricardo Noriega

Ricardo is a Principal Software Engineer working at the Red Hat's Office of the CTO in the Edge Computing space. He is member of the Akraino Technical Steering Committee and Project Technical Lead of the Kubernetes-Native-Infrastructure blueprint family. He's been doing R&D related to OpenStack, as well as, contributing to OpenDaylight project and OPNFV. Now of course, it's time to do some Kubernetes. He is passionate about new technologies and everything related to the Open Source world. Ricardo holds a MSc Degree in Telecommunications from Technical University of Madrid (UPM). He loves music, photography and outdoor sports.

# Miguel Angel Ajo

Miguel is currently working at the Red Hat CTO Office Emergent technologies / EDGE for the MicroShift project. Previously he worked on the Submariner project in the area of multi-cluster communication and security. He started contributing to OpenStack 7 years ago on the Neutron project (virtual networks) fixing bugs and contributing to new frameworks like Quality of Service, he gained a core reviewer status. Afterwards Miguel joined the networking-ovn project to support OVN from Neutron, contributing the L3HA support patches to Open vSwitch/OVN. Miguel loves working for OpenSource communities, networking, and automation.