Oracle International Corporation

Naren Shivashankar Vasanad

Pradeep Kumar Vijay

Harshit Kumar Kalley

Srikanth Vavilapalli

Alok Shankar

Techniques discussed herein relate to provisioning one or more virtual cloud-computing edge devices at a physical cloud-computing edge device. A manifest may be generated/utilized to specify various attributes of the virtual cloud-computing edge devices to be executed at a physical cloud-computing edge device. A first set of resources corresponding to a first virtual cloud-computing edge device may be obtained from memory of a centralized cloud-environment and provisioned at the first virtual cloud-computing edge device. Similar operations may be performed with respect to a second virtual cloud-computing edge device. The techniques described herein split the physical edge device into multiple virtual device resources that can be utilized in combination or separately to extend the functionality and versatility of the physical edge device.

Virtual edge devices

Techniques discussed herein relate to implementing a distributed computing cluster (the 'cluster') including a plurality of edge devices (e.g., devices individually configured to selectively execute within an isolated computing environment). Each of the edge devices of the cluster may be configured with a respective control plane computing component. A subset of the edge devices may be selected to operate in a distributed control plane of the computing cluster. Any suitable combination of the subset selected to operate in the distributed control plane can instruct remaining edge devices of the distributed computing cluster to disable at least a portion of their respective control planes. Using these techniques, the cluster's distributed control plane can be configured and modified to scale as the cluster grows. The edge devices of the control plane may selectively connect to a centralized cloud, alleviating the remaining edge devices from needless and costly connections.

Multi-tier deployment architecture for distributed edge devices

Techniques discussed herein relate to managing aspects of provisioning cloud-computing edge devices. In some embodiments, a user request specifying one or more resources to be provisioned at a cloud-computing edge device may be received by a cloud-computing device operated by a cloud-computing provider. An ephemeral credential may be generated for the edge device and used to determine whether access control policies exist that enable the edge device to access the resource(s). If the resource(s) are accessible, a manifest may be generated in accordance with the user request. The manifest may specify a configuration for the cloud-computing edge device and includes information related to the resource. Operations may be subsequently executed to provision the cloud-computing edge device in accordance with the manifest. However, if the resource(s) are not accessible, the user request may be denied.

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