Taming Tactical Cluster Federation at the Edge – Anna Magdalena Kosek, TNO & Stefan van Gastel, Dutch Ministry of Defence
Cluster federation sounds easy: you take several k8s clusters and treat them as one. Right? Easy! What if the network is unstable? What if clusters are resource-diverse and on the move? What if clusters join, unjoin, and re-join spontaneously? What if a cluster running a stateful application leaves the federation? Cluster federation does not sound so easy anymore. Join us on an adventure of bringing cloud federation to the edge and uncovering just how far a mesh of elastic mobile clouds can stretch. See the use Liqo for distributed federation; a combination of TAS (Telemetry Aware Scheduler) and OLSR (Optimized Link State Routing) for network aware scheduling; and Chaos Mesh to simulate network effects. We will show you a tactical cloud concept developed together by TNO and the Dutch Ministry of Defence, where manned or unmanned vehicles join spontaneously in ad-hoc cloud constellations to deliver a resilient, distributed, and collaborative computation.