Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

Timo Simanainen

Tero Kauppinen

Miljenko Opsenica

Miika Komu

A method and apparatus for providing service discovery. The method comprises receiving a service query; analysing the service query to determine whether the service query comprises a service name; and responsive to the service query comprising a service name, transmitting a service (SRV) record query to a Domain Name System (DNS).

Methods and apparatus for service discovery

The present disclosure relates to a method for anchoring an edge cloud to a central cloud, the method being performed in a cloud environment comprising a central cloud and an edge cloud, the method comprising obtaining (S, S), by a connectivity controller of an edge cloud, an address of an anchoring registry of a central cloud; sending (S, S), by the connectivity controller, to the anchoring registry, information about networking configuration of the edge cloud; setting up (S, S), by an orchestrator of the central cloud, a virtual private network, VPN, service in the central cloud; requesting (S, S), by the orchestrator of the central cloud, edge VPN configuration information from the central VPN service, based on the information about networking configuration of the edge cloud; sending (S, S), by the anchoring registry, the edge VPN configuration information, to an orchestrator of the edge cloud; creating (S, S), by an orchestrator of the edge cloud, an edge VPN service, based on the edge VPN configuration information; and establishing (S, S) a VPN connection between the edge VPN service and the central VPN service, whereby services from either one of the edge cloud or the central cloud are exposed in the edge cloud and the central cloud.

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