Tencent's first CNCF sandbox open source project

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SuperEdge developer, Tencent Cloud Container Product Center Edge Computing Team, Tencent Open Source Ecological Management Association

SuperEdge enters the CNCF sandbox

On September 14, 2021, the cloud-native distributed edge container system SuperEdge passed the evaluation of the world's top open source foundation CNCF Technical Supervision Committee officially became the CNCF sandbox project . In the future, the ownership of the project code, documents, official website and other content will be officially transferred to the CNCF Foundation for custody. This not only means that SuperEdge has been recognized by the cloud native open source community, but also marks the complete decoupling of the project from all the commercial companies behind it, and an important step for the native Kubernetes to land on the edge.

SuperEdge is a distributed edge cloud container management system based on native Kubernetes. It is led by Tencent Cloud and jointly launched by Intel, VMware Wei Rui, Huya, Cambrian, Meituan, Capital Online and other vendors in December 2020. The computing open source project aims to seamlessly extend the powerful container management capabilities of Kubernetes to edge computing and distributed resource management scenarios, empower edge IoT, edge AI, and edge intelligence industries, and promote the Internet of Things and digitalization. Landing.

Edge computing is in a connecting position in the field of cloud computing. At the beginning of open source, the SuperEdge project united all types of enterprises from hardware vendors, edge application developers, and edge application users to promote the development of SuperEdge and the establishment of edge standards through open source governance. The donation of the project to the CNCF Cloud Native Computing Foundation this time guarantees the neutrality of the project to the greatest extent, and is conducive to global developers, technology communities, partners, etc. to participate in the construction of the edge, win-win cooperation, and accelerate the implementation of edge technology And the establishment of marginal standards.

SuperEdge community and developers

Since SuperEdge was open sourced, 6 stable versions and more than 30 technical articles have been released in 10 months, attracting 30+ Contributors, 590+ Github Star and 137 Fork, and more than 600 people participated in the discussion or used SuperEdge. I would like to thank the top ten outstanding developers. Without your contributions, there would be no SuerEdge.

Welcome to use SuperEdge and participate in the development of SuperEdge. SuperEdge welcomes every user and developer to build an edge ecosystem with us.

Tencent Cloud Edge Container Products

SuperEdge comes from Tencent Cloud's edge container product TKE Edge, which is a collection of its edge capabilities. It is worth mentioning that since the start of SuperEdge open source, Tencent Cloud has deleted the internal warehouse of SuperEdge. Commercial product public cloud TKE Edge and privatized TKE Edge all edge capabilities are developed and fixed in Github's https://github .com/superedge/superedge unified without exception.

Tencent Cloud TKE Edge is the most important part of Tencent Cloud's edge computing infrastructure. It connects to Tencent Cloud ECM, AIoT gateway, CDC, TStack, edge devices and other edge-based IaaS, shields the complexity of the underlying details, and carries the Internet of Things, industrial cloud, CDN, AI, audio and video live broadcast, and cloud games. Various business scenarios such as smart travel, smart city, smart retail, car networking, cloud gaming, live video, AR/VR, healthcare, financial banking, industrial Internet and other industries.

Tencent Cloud IoT platform IECP uses SuperEdge to connect many edge devices at the edge to perform unified management, control, and operation and maintenance of the cloud. There are many landing scenarios in the Internet of Things, device control, and edge reasoning. Tencent Cloud's many excellent cloud edge solutions are applied to the Internet of Things and edge devices.

WeMake, Tencent's industrial Internet platform, uses SuperEdge to place platform data in the client room, realizing customer data localization and low latency requirements. At the same time, SuperEdge's cloud management and control solution has greatly improved the efficiency of operation and maintenance, and has achieved significant cost reduction and efficiency enhancement for related manufacturing companies.

The functions of privatized TKE Edge have been integrated into the enterprise version of TKE, and Lingqueyun will conduct professional privatization delivery and maintenance. A number of privatization projects have been implemented externally in the areas of smart security, smart cities, smart transportation, smart school police, and edge AI.

Look to the future

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Based on in-depth exchanges and discussions with customers on edge containers, the edge computing team found that users not only have a demand for cloud management and control of edge nodes, but also have a strong demand for cloud management and control of edge clusters. In analyzing the actual needs of users, the distributed cluster management project Clusternet was incubated from the SuperEdge project. These two projects complement each other and greatly promote the construction of Tencent Cloud in the field of distributed data center and edge computing.

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SuperEdge recently launched cluster management, node management, remote operation and maintenance and other functions, aiming to allow users to complete the management and operation and maintenance of edge resources with a small amount of operations. There is also a major feature that will be released soon, allowing edge Pod and Service to achieve non-perceived access and mutual access at the edge like Kubernetes at the center. We have launched a solution with our partners, which will soon be provided to SuperEdge for many developers to try. .

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SuperEdge can already deploy Edgex Foundry on edge Kubernetes clusters with one click. In the future, it will abstract and integrate with more edge device platforms, multi-platform edge devices, and provide users with more Simple, more versatile, and more useful IoT solutions.

In addition, SuperEdge will further in-depth cooperation with various industries in the future, continue to build edge infrastructure, and enrich edge landing scenarios. At the same time, it will further explore the high availability of edge systems, edge service grids, edge serverless, application disaster tolerance, and improving system ease of use, so as to provide users with more stable and useful edge solutions.

Finally, the entry of SuperEdge into the CNCF Sandbox is the first time Tencent's internal project has entered the CNCF Cloud Native Computing Foundation. From internal code opening to independently developed technology open source, to community participation and code contribution, Tencent has always firmly embraced open source.

At present, Tencent has open sourced more than 130 open source projects on GitHub, with a total of more than 370,000 Star, making it one of the world's largest open source technology companies. The entry of SuperEdge into the CNCF Sandbox this time is also an affirmation of Tencent and its developers. In the future, Tencent will continue to work hard on the road to open source and build an open source ecosystem with developers around the world.

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