The ExtremeCloud Edge - Managed Orchestration Deployment Guide provides comprehensive procedures for deploying and configuring the infrastructure that enables the running of ExtremeCloud applications at a customer's premises, as supported by the ExtremeCloud Edge - Managed Orchestration offering.
This document details the steps related to setting up the hosting environment, which consists of a variable-sized cluster of Universal Compute Platform hosts and the corresponding network and access requirements for the solution. The Universal Compute Platform cluster provides a Kubernetes-based containerized environment over which the components (container microservices) of the ExtremeCloud application portfolio are installed. The cluster essentially abstracts the local installation to mirror the platform and middleware dependencies of ExtremeCloud public installation.
This guide outlines the installation steps and setup for the hosting environment, in advance of the installation of ExtremeCloud application suites. Installation and management of the lifecycle of ExtremeCloud application software is provided by ExtremeCloud OPS as a managed service.
Network setup and Access configuration are key elements of the installation. This document provides configuration details pertaining to the setup of the cluster and the application interface to the network. The setup includes network addressing, configuring the Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP), and crucial firewall settings. VRRP support provides high availability and load balancing while the firewall settings are required for egress and ingress of service operations as well as CloudOPs lifecycle management.
Additionally, the guide covers the configuration of cluster states, pre-deployment readiness checks, and software provisioning. This includes integration with the ExtremeCloud IQ engine for centralized cloud management. This guide provides detailed information about network segementation, private IP schemas, and persistent connections to ExtremeCloud IQ services.