Building the first European open source Edge Computing platform for GAIA-X
summary
OpenNebula receives €2.1M from Horizon 2020 (2019) to turn its private‑cloud stack into Europe’s first open‑source edge platform, running KVM, vSphere, LXC and Firecracker microVMs so Docker images deploy one‑to‑one as tiny VMs; it ships CNCF‑certified Kubernetes and k3s appliances, a provider catalog that federates multi‑cloud/edge resources, and connects to the GAIA‑X federated catalog APIs. Project runs Nov 2019–Mar 2022 and targets integration with GAIA‑X to help reach the EU goal of 10,000 climate‑neutral edge nodes by 2030.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction and background
- 1:51OpenNebula’s evolution
- 3:38Principles and technologies
- 9:13Edge computing project
- 12:44Hyperscalers in Europe
- 15:17EU digital sovereignty
- 17:23Gaia-X initiative
- 20:59Gaia-X goals and benefits
- 23:27European capabilities
- 24:30Integration with Gaia-X
- 26:59Use cases and business models
- 28:05Challenges and future
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