Delivery: ~ December 2018
The Delhi release is slated to implement additional features in the security and manageability roadmap, improve overall performance and establish the certification program within the EdgeX project for both commmerical instances of the full platform and drop-in "EdgeX-compliant" microservices.
The release will also look at EdgeX in a wider context use - with instances spread across a fog deployment.
Key release themes and planned features to be implemented will be detailed in early 2018.
Proposed Release Themes and Objectives (DRAFT)
- Target <256MB of memory utilization for baseline deployment of EdgeX, boot time 1-2 minutes
- Implementation of message bus alternative for intercommunication between microservices as an alternative to REST
- Implementation of Core Services and Device Service SDK in C to support deterministic real time use cases
- Implementation of additional priority features for security and manageability
- Integration with Kubernetes for container orchestration
- Certification process for EdgeX-compliant microservices to enable a plug-and-play ecosystem
- Validate commercial implementations of EdgeX (full platform or discrete microservice) satisfies key APIs and deployment/delivery facilities
- …
- Facilitate East/West capability
- Microservice load balancing, failover, scale-over, ...
- Device from EdgeX A triggers action on device on EdgeX B
- Address data privacy concerns
- EU laws and affirmation about data use/storage/etc.
- HIP-A