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Continuum Management

The Continuum Management is responsible for bootstrapping new devices into the ICOS continuum. It provides the mechanisms for:

  • registering and activating the edge devices into ICOS Shell;
  • enabling the remote execution of management jobs, issued by users, allowing for on-demand management and re-configuration of the Meta-Kernel itself, as well as low-level operations such as real time configuration, kernel tunning or updates/upgrades (including mechanisms to automatically enforce green strategies such as: offloading of computation-intensive tasks from end users to edge nodes or the cloud,configuring edge-device CPU processor, connectivity and bandwidth utilization, resources location, etc.);
  • configuring the edge devices network such that secure remote access, multi-access edge computing and network attack surface protection can be enabled;
  • ensuring that the user workloads and the underlying device are performing according to the expectations mandated by pre-defined and configurable SLA criteria. The component also makes sure that failed workloads are rebalanced and quality is reinforced, and;
  • discovering, labeling and categorizing both the underlying device and all relevant peripherals such as IoT sensors and actuators.