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SFC controller: extension to the default scheduler (Kube-Scheduler) in Kubernetes to enable scheduling in terms of latency and bandwidth

SFC-controller

The proposed SFC controller has been implemented as an extension to the default scheduling feature available in Kubernetes. The SFC controller enables Kubernetes to efficiently allocate container-based service chains while maintaining bandwidth and reducing latency.

How does the SFC-controller work?

• In the deployments folder you find a Kubernetes Deployment that launches our SFC-controller. Information can be found in the Kubernetes documentation.
• Please see main/main.go. You should change the infrastructure weights/labels based on your own infrastructure before building the container.
• Node labels are used to make allocation decisions based on bandwidth and latency.
• Besides, our SFC-controller applies the new Kubernetes concepts of pod and node informers
• If you would like to know further details about our SFC-controller, please read our papers mentioned below.

Build the SFC controller

1. Use the Makefile to build your own Docker image. make build.
2. Push the Docker image to a container registry: make push.

Deploy the SFC controller

1. Deploy the SFC-controller policy configuration: kubectl create -f deployments/scheduler-policy-config.yaml.
2. Deploy the SFC-controller: kubectl create -f deployments/sfc-controller-v2.yaml.
3. Deploy your own pod. See deployments/pod-example.yaml.

Documentation

PowerPoint presentations of this work are located here.

Citation

If you use our work, please cite our articles.

• NETSOFT 2019

@inproceedings{santos2019towards,
  title={Towards Network-Aware Resource Provisioning in Kubernetes for Fog Computing applications},
  author={Santos, Jos{\'e} and Wauters, Tim and Volckaert, Bruno and De Turck, Filip},
  booktitle={2019 IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft)},
  pages={351--359},
  year={2019},
  organization={IEEE}
}

• SENSORS 2019

@article{santos2019resource,
  title={Resource provisioning in Fog computing: From theory to practice},
  author={Santos, Jos{\'e} and Wauters, Tim and Volckaert, Bruno and De Turck, Filip},
  journal={Sensors},
  volume={19},
  number={10},
  pages={2238},
  year={2019},
  publisher={Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute}
}

• NOMS 2020

@inproceedings{pereira2020towards,
  title={Towards delay-aware container-based Service Function Chaining in Fog Computing},
  author={Pereira dos Santos, Jos{\'e} Pedro and Wauters, Tim and Volckaert, Bruno and De Turck, Filip},
  booktitle={NOMS2020, the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium},
  pages={1--9},
  year={2020}
}

• NETSOFT 2020

Demo presentation: Live Demonstration of Service Function Chaining allocation in Fog Computing

Team

• Jose Santos

• Tim Wauters

• Bruno Volckaert

• Filip de Turck

Contact

If you want to contribute, please contact:

Lead developer: Jose Santos

For questions or support, please use GitHub's issue system.

License

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