RAINBOW Workshop on “Edge Orchestration”

Online – June 21^th, 2022 / 17.30-20.00 CEST

About the Workshop:

Platforms for managing Cloud-only infrastructures, such as Kubernetes or OpenStack are well known. Recently various platforms for managing the Cloud-Edge continuum have started to emerge. Both, academia and industry, have presented innovative ideas for tackling the challenges of this domain over the past years.

This workshop presents platforms for managing Cloud-Edge infrastructures and applications deployed on them. We present an overview of the RAINBOW Platform to give the audience a taste of its innovations. Futurewei Technologies, USA will present the open-source Centaurus platform for building unified and highly scalable distributed cloud-edge systems. Additionally, the Polaris Framework designed for handling high-level SLOs and elasticity in both platforms will be showcased. Finally, a panel of distinguished experts from academia and industry will discuss current challenges in managing Cloud-Edge infrastructures and applications.

Agenda:

17:30 – 17:40	Opening & Welcome – Speakers: Prof. Schahram Dustdar (TU Wien)
17:40 – 18:00	Session 1: RAINBOW Platform Overview – / Speaker: Konstantinos Theodosiou (UBITECH Ltd)
18:00 – 18:20	Session 2: Polaris Framework: Creating and enforcing complex Service Level Objectives – / Speaker: Thomas Pusztai (TU Wien)
18:20 – 18:50	Session 3: Demo: Creating an SLO and Elasticity Strategy with the Polaris CLI – Speaker: Thomas Pusztai (TU Wien)
18:50 – 19:00	Comfort Break
19:00 – 19:20	Session 4: Centaurus: An open-source platform for building unified and highly scalable distributed cloud-edge systems – / Speaker: Deepak Vij (Futurewei Technologies, Inc., USA)
19:20 – 19:50	Session 5: Expert Panel Discussion: Managing Cloud-Edge infrastructures and applications – Experts: Prof. George Pallis (University of Cyprus), and Deepak Vij (Futurewei Technologies, Inc.) Moderator: Thomas Pusztai (TU Wien)
19:50 – 20:00	Closing