Re: Has virtualization become obsolete in 5G?

[Etienne-Victor Depasquale <edepa () ieee org>]

Intel definitely is pressing for containerized data plane.

Here <https://intelvs.on24.com/vshow/inteldcgevents/#content/2393080>,
@20:49 (registration required), I placed that very question and it took a
bit of humming to obtain a straight answer :)

Etienne


On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 5:38 PM <adamv0025 () netconsultings com> wrote:

> Wondering whether the industry will consider containerised data-plane in
> addition to control-plane (like cRDP).
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> Having just control-plane and then hacking to kernel for doing the
> data-plane bit is …well not as straight forward as having a dedicated
> data-plane VM or potentially container.
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> adam
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> *From:* NANOG <nanog-bounces+adamv0025=netconsultings.com () nanog org> *On
> Behalf Of *Etienne-Victor Depasquale
> *Sent:* Saturday, August 1, 2020 7:09 PM
> *To:* Robert Raszuk <robert () raszuk net>
> *Cc:* NANOG <nanog () nanog org>
> *Subject:* Re: Has virtualization become obsolete in 5G?
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> Clearly to virtualize operating systems as long as your level of
> virtualization mainly in terms of security and resource consumption
> isolation & reservation is satisfactory is a much better and lighter
> option.
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> That pretty much sums up Intel's view.
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> To quote an Intel executive I was corresponding with:
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> "The purpose of the paper was to showcase how Communication Service
> Providers can move to a more nimble and future proof microservices based
> network architecture with cloud native functions, via container deployment
> methodologies versus virtual machines.  The paper cites many benefits of
> moving to a microservices architecture beyond whether it is done in a VM
> environment or cloud native. We believe the 5G networks of the future will
> benefit greatly by implementing such an approach to deploying new services."
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> The paper referred to is this one
> <https://www.intel.in/content/www/in/en/communications/why-containers-and-cloud-native-functions-paper.html%20>
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> Cheers,
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> Etienne
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> On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 6:23 PM Robert Raszuk <robert () raszuk net> wrote:
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> I reason that Intel's implication is that virtualization is becoming
> obsolete.
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> Would anyone care to let me know his thoughts on this prediction?
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> Virtualization is not becoming obsolete ... quite reverse in fact in all
> types of deployments I can see around.
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> The point is that VM provides hardware virtualization while kubernetes
> with containers virtualize OS apps and services are running on in
> isolation.
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> Clearly to virtualize operating systems as long as your level of
> virtualization mainly in terms of security and resource consumption
> isolation & reservation is satisfactory is a much better and lighter
> option.
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> Thx,
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> R.
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> --
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> Ing. Etienne-Victor Depasquale
> Assistant Lecturer
> Department of Communications & Computer Engineering
> Faculty of Information & Communication Technology
> University of Malta
>
> Web. https://www.um.edu.mt/profile/etiennedepasquale


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Ing. Etienne-Victor Depasquale
Assistant Lecturer
Department of Communications & Computer Engineering
Faculty of Information & Communication Technology
University of Malta
Web. https://www.um.edu.mt/profile/etiennedepasquale