1. FabEdge enters the CNCF sandbox

On March 8, 2022, FabEdge, the edge computing container network, passed the evaluation of THE global top open source foundation CNCF Technology Oversight Committee (TOC), and officially became CNCF Sandbox Projects. This means that FabEdge has been recognized by the cloud native open source community and donated to CNCF through sandbox, which further ensures the neutrality of the project and facilitates developers, partners and others to participate in the construction of the project and promote the management of the container network of edge computing scenarios.

Sandbox was created by CNCF to provide a beneficial, neutral home for open source projects to promote collaboration and development. Projects selected for the sandbox are potential projects that have been recognized by THE CNCF TOC and are worthy of experimentation and development.

FabEdge is a container network solution based on Kubernetes that focuses on edge computing scenarios. It supports mainstream edge computing frameworks such as KubeEdge, SuperEdge, and OpenYurt. It aims to solve the complex configuration and management of container network in edge computing scenarios, the lack of topology awareness, and the inability to provide nearby access. It enables the business collaboration between cloud and edge, and is applicable to various edge scenarios such as Internet of Things, Internet of vehicles, smart cities, and smart parks.

Since opening up, FabEdge has attracted 10+ Ficolin-3, 330+Github Star and 40 forks. More than 200 people have contributed to the discussion or used FabEdge. We would like to thank each of our community partners for their help and support, and welcome more users and developers to experience and use FabEdge.

In edge computing, cloud edge or edge collaboration is often used, but networking is a big challenge. It’s very different from a cloud network in a data center. Weak network environment, single-pass network, distrust network and other characteristics of edge network hinder the adoption of mature solutions in cloud.

FabEdge has successfully released V0.4 and will release V0.5 in the near future. In order to better understand the community’s needs and opinions on the current version of FabEdge and plan for the future, the FabEdge project team released a prize survey on January 21st, and we received a lot of meaningful suggestions.

2. The first survey results of FabEdge were released

So far, the first survey of FabEdge has collected nearly 100 pieces of effective content and feedback, which clearly shows the needs and expectations of the interviewees for the use of edge network and FabEdge. In particular, FabEdge was able to communicate effectively with his community members about what he could do and what he needed to do. The results of this research will also inform the design of subsequent versions of RoadMap.

2.1 Internet and industrial fields pay more attention to edge computing

Among all community respondents, Internet, industry and finance workers occupy the top three positions, with 30 percent, 24 percent and 16 percent, respectively. It fully reflects the hot field under the current edge network. In addition, communication industry, government agencies and research institutions are also involved.

Figure 1: Industry distribution of respondents

2.2 Network and security are important aspects of users’ concern

This research roughly divides the pain points of edge network into four aspects: security, device management, hardware and network. Internet and security were the biggest pain points, at 37 percent and 31 percent, respectively.

At the same time, the survey found that the pain point of edge network is often not a single existence, and users’ needs also have specific application environment. Therefore, targeted design and customized development can better meet the use requirements of different situations.

Figure 2: Statistical graph of edge network pain points

2.3 Half of users plan to put FabEdge into production

In this survey, half of the respondents said that FabEdge is currently being developed and tested, and will go into production once it is completed. At the same time, 25% and 22% of respondents are interested in developing tests and personal interests.

Figure 3: Statistics of usage purposes of FabEdge

2.4 Internet of Things and industrial Internet will be FabEdge’s focus areas

FabEdge’s most anticipated applications are the Internet of Things (35%) and the Industrial Internet (23%). In addition, 5G, Internet of vehicles and smart cities also account for a certain proportion.

Figure 4: Statistics of expected FabEdge usage scenarios

2.5 Summary of research results

According to the survey results, the interviewees mainly come from the three fields of Internet, industry and finance, which also greatly affects the expected application scenarios of FabEdge, namely, Internet of Things and industrial Internet.

The research set goals for what FabEdge should focus on in the future. We also noticed that a lot of our respondents were looking to apply FabEdge to real-world development. FabEdge will be developed more specifically to address network and security pain points reported by community members. Further, FabEdge can be commercialized to suit the needs of users and application scenarios.

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