Energy Savings & Resiliency with Closed Loop Platform Automation
Abstract — This article showcases the advancements made through utilizing Anuket Barometer project by introducing local and remote corrective action frameworks with industry standard cloud native orchestrators like Kubernetes, monitoring agents like Collectd, Time Series Database (TSDB) like Prometheus and InfluxDB for widely adopted NFV use cases of Virtual Border Network Gateway (vBNG) and Virtual Cable Modem Termination Systems (vCMTS). Leveraging advanced platform reliability and adaptive power saving telemetry, the demo provides methodologies in to identifying the platform capabilities & provision them for optimal run time power savings and reliability. The two part demo showcases in part one, automated memory fault detection and swap over of vBNG containers to hot stand by containers via local corrective action, while part two showcases adaptive power control of containerized vCMTS workload across multiple compute nodes, essentially providing closed loop platform automation.
Keywords — service assurance, closed loop platform automation,
BNG, CMTS, telemetry, DPDK
