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IoT Edge WG�Community Meeting Update

October 2019

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A bit of history + status

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    • Formed in summer 2018
    • Goals to make Kubernetes better platform for IoT and Edge use-cases
      • Build a community
      • Define use cases, challenges
      • Provide white-papers, blueprints, reference architectures
      • Identify potential k8s improvements or new projects
    • Community
      • 254 WG members, hundreds attending WG KubeCon sessions (example: 256 registered for intro session at KubeCon NA 2018)
      • Regular calls
    • Defining the space

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What we did last cycle

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    • Dive deeper into challenges: security and data plane
    • Edge security white-paper
    • KubeCon Barcelona
      • Intro+Deep dive session focusing on Edge challenges
        • Deck + recording sched.co/MPl4
    • KubeCon China
      • Survey of existing solutions for IoT edge space - K8s distros + open source tools that work with K8s
        • Deck + recording sched.co/Nrqt
    • Presentations
      • AMQP 1.0
      • KubeEdge
      • Harbor
      • MQTT bridge
      • Skupper
      • ioFog
    • Collaborate with other Lin Foundation communities and projects: Akraino, Eclipse, etc.

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Plans for upcoming cycles

    • Continue to build up the community and facilitate the needs
    • More presentations
      • Eclipse IoT integrations project
      • Azure IOT Edge
    • Work on blueprints and reference architectures
    • KubeCon San Diego preparations
      • Focus on supporting IoT protocols
      • Developing microservices for Edge computing

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How you can contribute

Help wanted?

  • Know about good use cases or actual projects going on? Spread the need and what we are doing
  • Exposure to broad IOT & edge computing events/data
  • Get involved in one of the current initiatives.
  • Join the next Zoom. Speakers on IoT & edge topics welcome - or post discussion questions/topics in the agenda

Our involvement in k8s mentorship programs

  • tbd

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Where to find us

  • APAC WG Meeting: Wed (Tue in NA) at 5:00 UTC (every four weeks).
  • Regular WG Meeting: Wednesdays at 09:00 (Pacific Time) PT (every four weeks).
    • agenda/notes
  • Chairs
    • @dejanb
    • @cantbewong
    • @cindyxing
    • @ptone
  • Home page: README link
  • Slack channel: https://kubernetes.slack.com/messages/wg-iot-edge
  • List: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/kubernetes-wg-iot-edge