| 131 | 131 | !PlanetIgnite is a general-purpose, Infrastructure-as-a-Service, self-assembling, lightweight edge cloud on virtualized infrastructure with support for single-pane-of-glass distributed application configuration and deployment. This is an entirely new concept. !PlanetLab, GENI, and SAVI are general-purpose IaaS edge clouds, but require top-down installation and dedicated hardware resources at each site and do not offer single- pane-of-glass application deployment. Seattle is a lightweight self-assembling edge cloud that offers single- pane-of-class configuration and control, but developers are restricted to using a subset of Python. !PlanetIgnite is a Containers-as-a-Service Edge Cloud which offers Docker Containers to each !PlanetIgnite user. A !PlanetIgnite node is an off-the-shelf Ubuntu 14.04 Virtual machine with Docker installed, meaning it can be installed on any edge node where a VM with a routable v4 address is available. Adding a !PlanetIgnite node to the infrastructure is simple: a site wishing to host a !PlanetIgnite node simply downloads the image; on boot, the new !PlanetIgnite node registers with the !PlanetIgnite portal, which runs a series of acceptance tests. Once complete, the image is registered and the node is added to the set of !PlanetIgnite sites. |
