CN111800281B - Network system, management and control method, equipment and storage medium - Google Patents

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CN111800281B
CN111800281B CN201910277460.1A CN201910277460A CN111800281B CN 111800281 B CN111800281 B CN 111800281B CN 201910277460 A CN201910277460 A CN 201910277460A CN 111800281 B CN111800281 B CN 111800281B
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Abstract

The embodiment of the application provides a network system, a management and control method, equipment and a storage medium. In the embodiment of the application, in combination with the concept of edge computing, consider that the capability of cloud computing is put to the edge side closer to the terminal side, and then a network system including edge cloud nodes is provided, in the network system, in combination with central management and control equipment and edge management and control equipment, the edge cloud nodes can be fully and comprehensively managed and controlled, and conditions are provided for processing the cloud computing in the edge cloud nodes closer to the terminal, and further cloud computing services can be provided for users by means of resources in the edge cloud nodes, so that service response delay is reduced, and bandwidth cost is reduced.

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Network system, management and control method, equipment and storage medium
Technical Field
The present disclosure relates to the field of internet technologies, and in particular, to a network system, a management and control method, a device, and a storage medium.
Background
At present, the concept of cloud computing is proposed based on centralized resource management and control, and even if a plurality of data centers are used for interconnection and interworking, all software and hardware resources are regarded as unified resources to be managed, scheduled and sold. With the advent of the age of 5G and the internet of things and the gradual increase of cloud computing applications, requirements of a terminal side on performances such as time delay and bandwidth of cloud resources are higher and higher, and a centralized cloud network cannot meet the requirements of the terminal side on the cloud resources which are increased day by day.
Disclosure of Invention
Aspects of the present application provide a network system, a management and control method, a device, and a storage medium, which are used to reduce response delay of a service and reduce bandwidth cost.
The embodiment of the application provides a network system, which comprises: the system comprises central management and control equipment, edge management and control equipment and at least one edge cloud node; the central control equipment is used for receiving the monitoring data aiming at the at least one edge cloud node and reported by the edge control equipment, and controlling the at least one edge cloud node according to the monitoring data; the edge management and control equipment is used for monitoring the at least one edge cloud node and reporting monitoring data to the central management and control equipment; and autonomously controlling the at least one edge cloud node if the central control device does not or cannot control the at least one edge cloud node.
The embodiment of the application also provides a control method, which comprises the following steps: determining that central control equipment in a network system does not or cannot control at least one edge cloud node in the network system; the at least one edge cloud node is autonomously managed.
The embodiment of the application also provides a control method, which comprises the following steps: monitoring at least one edge cloud node in the network system; and reporting the monitoring data to central control equipment in the network system so that the central control equipment can control the at least one edge cloud node according to the monitoring data.
The embodiment of the application also provides edge management and control equipment, which comprises: a memory and a processor; the memory is used for storing a computer program; the computer program, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to perform the steps in the method embodiments of the present application.
The present application also provides a computer-readable storage medium storing a computer program, which when executed by one or more processors causes the one or more processors to implement steps in embodiments of methods of the present application.
In the embodiment of the application, in combination with the concept of edge computing, consider that the capability of cloud computing is put to the edge side closer to the terminal side, and then a network system including edge cloud nodes is provided, in the network system, in combination with central management and control equipment and edge management and control equipment, the edge cloud nodes can be fully and comprehensively managed and controlled, and conditions are provided for processing the cloud computing in the edge cloud nodes closer to the terminal, and further cloud computing services can be provided for users by means of resources in the edge cloud nodes, so that response delay is reduced, and bandwidth cost is reduced.
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fig. 1a is a schematic structural diagram of a network system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present application;
fig. 1b is a schematic structural diagram of a central control device and an edge control device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present application;
fig. 1c is a schematic structural diagram of another network system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present application;
FIG. 2a is a schematic flow chart of a control method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present application;
FIG. 2b is a flow chart of another control method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present application;
fig. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of a central control device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present application;
fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of an edge management and control device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present application.
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For the purposes, technical solutions and advantages of the present application, the technical solutions of the present application will be clearly and completely described below with reference to specific embodiments of the present application and corresponding drawings. It will be apparent that the described embodiments are only some, but not all, of the embodiments of the present application. All other embodiments, which can be made by one of ordinary skill in the art without undue burden from the present disclosure, are within the scope of the present disclosure.
Aiming at the technical problem that the existing centralized cloud network cannot meet the increasingly-increased cloud resource demands of the terminal side, in some embodiments of the application, the concept of edge computing is combined, the capability of cloud computing is considered to be put on the edge side which is closer to the terminal side, and then a network system comprising at least one edge cloud node is provided, in the network system, the central management and control equipment and the edge management and control equipment are combined, the edge cloud node can be fully and comprehensively managed and controlled, the problem of managing and controlling the edge cloud node is solved, the condition is provided for 'putting cloud computing on the edge cloud node which is closer to the terminal for processing', cloud computing service can be provided for users by means of resources in the edge cloud node, response time delay is reduced, and bandwidth cost is reduced.
The following describes in detail the technical solutions provided by the embodiments of the present application with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Fig. 1a is a schematic structural diagram of a network system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present application. As shown in fig. 1a, the network system 100 includes: a central management and control device 101, an edge management and control device 103, and at least one edge cloud node 102.
The network system 100 of the present embodiment is a cloud computing platform built on an edge infrastructure based on the cloud computing technology and the capability of edge computing, and is a cloud platform with the capabilities of computing, networking, storage, security, and the like at an edge location.
The network system 100 of the present embodiment may be regarded as an edge cloud network system, corresponding to a central cloud or a conventional cloud computing platform. The edge cloud is a relative concept, and the edge cloud is a cloud computing platform relatively close to a terminal, or is different from a central cloud or a traditional cloud computing platform, the central cloud or the traditional cloud computing platform can comprise a data center with large resource scale and concentrated position, and the edge cloud node covers a wider network range, so that the edge cloud node has the characteristic of being closer to the terminal, the resource scale of a single edge cloud node is smaller, but the number of the edge cloud nodes is large, and a plurality of edge cloud nodes form a component part of the edge cloud in the embodiment. The terminal in this embodiment refers to a demand end of a cloud computing service, and may be, for example, a terminal or a user end in the internet, or a terminal or a user end in the internet of things. An edge cloud network is a network built based on the infrastructure between a central cloud or a conventional cloud computing system and terminals. Wherein the network system 100 comprises at least one edge cloud node 102, each edge cloud node 102 comprising a series of edge infrastructures including, but not limited to: distributed Data Center (DC), wireless room or cluster, operator's communication network, core network devices, base stations, edge gateways, home gateways, computing devices and/or storage devices, and the like, and corresponding network environments, and the like. Here, the location, capabilities, and contained infrastructure of the different edge cloud nodes 102 may or may not be the same.
The network system 100 of the embodiment, in combination with a central network such as a central cloud or a traditional cloud computing platform and a terminal, may form a network architecture of "cloud edge end three-body collaboration", in which tasks such as network forwarding, storage, calculation and/or intelligent data analysis may be placed in each edge cloud node 102 in the network system 100 for processing, and since each edge cloud node 102 is closer to the terminal, response delay may be reduced, pressure of the central cloud or the traditional cloud computing platform may be reduced, and bandwidth cost may be reduced.
How to reasonably schedule multiple edge cloud node resources, and how to manage multiple edge cloud nodes for cloud computing services with correct and stable logic, is an important challenge. In the network system 100 of the present embodiment, a central management and control device 101 is deployed, where the central management and control device 101 may take the edge cloud nodes 102 as management and control objects, and in aspects of resource scheduling, mirror image management, instance management and control, operation and maintenance, network, security, etc., manage and control at least one edge cloud node 102 in the network system 100, so as to put cloud computing services into each edge cloud node 102 for processing. In deployment implementation, the central management and control device 101 may be deployed in one or more cloud computing data centers, or may be deployed in one or more traditional data centers, where the central management and control device 101 and at least one edge cloud node managed by the central management and control device may together form an edge cloud network, and this embodiment is not limited to this.
For one edge cloud node 102, various resources, such as computing resources of CPU, GPU, etc., memory, storage resources of hard disk, network resources of bandwidth, etc., may be provided externally. In addition, the edge Yun Jiedian 102 can create corresponding instances from the mirror image, and provide various services to the outside through the instances. The image is a basic file required by an instance created in the edge cloud node, for example, may be an image file of an operating system, an application, or an operation configuration required by providing cloud computing service for a user, and may be a file which meets the computing deployment requirement of the edge cloud node, and a specific series of files are manufactured according to a certain format. In addition, the image forms are various, and may be Virtual Machine (VM) image files, container (Docker) image files, application package files of various types, and the like, and the image forms may be related to a virtualization technology that needs to be used by the cloud computing service, which is not limited in this embodiment. Corresponding to the mirror image, the implementation form of the instance may be a virtual machine, a container, an application program, or the like.
In this embodiment, the central management and control device 101 may perform resource scheduling on at least one edge cloud node 102 according to resource requirements alone, or may perform mirror image management and distribution on at least one edge cloud node 102 according to mirror image requirements alone, or may, of course, perform resource scheduling on at least one edge cloud node 102 according to service requirements, and provide mirror images for at least one edge cloud node 102. The service requirements include resource requirements and mirror requirements. For example, the central controlling device 101 may provide a demand submission portal to the outside, which may be a web page, an application page, a command window, or the like. The role of the demand submitting portal is for the demand direction central control apparatus 101 to submit its own demand description information.
For the resource demander, the resource demand description information may be submitted to the central control apparatus 101 through the above-described demand submitting portal, the resource demand description information including: edge cloud node selection parameters and resource selection parameters; the edge cloud node selection parameters comprise a scheduling domain, performance requirements of the edge cloud node and the like, and the resource selection parameters comprise resource types, resource quantity, performance requirements of resource equipment and the like. The central management and control device 101 may schedule resources for at least one edge cloud node according to the resource requirement description information. Optionally, the resource scheduling method includes: the central management and control equipment 101 determines a scheduled target edge cloud node and scheduled resource information in the target edge cloud node from at least one edge cloud node 102 of the network system 100 according to the resource demand description information; and controlling corresponding resource equipment in the target edge cloud node to allocate or reserve resources according to the resource information.
For the image demand party, the image demand description information can be submitted to the central management and control device 101 through the above-mentioned demand submitting entrance, where the image demand description information can point to the image to be used, and can be the image itself, or identification information such as name, ID, etc. of the image, or some information describing the functions of the cloud computing service, and these information can reflect the required image. The central management and control equipment 101 can determine a target image which needs to be provided for the first edge cloud node according to the image demand description information; and providing the target image for the first edge cloud node, so that the first edge cloud node creates a corresponding instance according to the image to provide corresponding cloud computing service. The first edge cloud node may be any edge cloud node in the network system 100. For convenience of description and distinction, the image that needs to be provided to the first edge cloud node is referred to as a target image.
For the service demander, the service demand description information including the resource demand description information and the mirror demand description information may be submitted to the central management and control apparatus 101 through the above-described demand submission portal. For the resource requirement description information and the mirror requirement description information, reference may be made to the foregoing descriptions, and details thereof will not be repeated herein. It should be noted that, the resource requirement description information and the mirror image requirement description information in the service requirement description information may be submitted together or separately. The central management and control device 101 can schedule resources of at least one edge cloud node 102 in the network system 100 according to the service demand description information; mirroring is provided for the scheduled resources in the at least one edge cloud node 102 to provide cloud computing services using the scheduled resources in the at least one edge cloud node.
For a detailed description of the above-described resource scheduling process and the mirror management and distribution process, reference may be made to the following embodiments, which are not described in detail herein.
It should be noted that, in the network system 100, the central controlling device 101 may directly control and schedule the at least one edge cloud node 102, but is not limited thereto. As shown in fig. 1a, in a network system 100, an edge management and control device 103 is included in addition to a central management and control device 101 and at least one edge cloud node 102. The number of the edge management and control devices 103 may be one or more. In addition, edge management and control device 103 may be deployed in one or more edge cloud nodes 102. In an alternative embodiment, as shown in fig. 1a, edge management and control devices 103 are deployed in each edge cloud node 102. Further, each edge cloud node includes one or more resource devices, and optionally, the edge management and control device 103 may be deployed on one resource device in a centralized manner, or may be deployed on multiple resource devices in a decentralized manner. In addition, each edge cloud node may include one or more proprietary devices in addition to the resource devices, and alternatively, the edge management device 103 may be disposed centrally on one proprietary device or disposed separately on multiple proprietary devices. Where proprietary devices refer to physical devices used to deploy edge management devices 103, as opposed to resource devices. In addition, the edge management and control device 103 may also be deployed with the center management and control device 101, which is not limited herein. The central management and control device 101 may be deployed in one or more cloud computing data centers or traditional data centers, or may be deployed in an edge cloud network together with at least one edge cloud node.
In this embodiment, the edge management and control device 103 may assist, cooperate with the central management and control device 101 to manage and schedule at least one edge cloud node 102. With the assistance of the edge management and control device 103, the central management and control device 101 can manage and schedule at least one edge cloud node 102 more conveniently and efficiently, so as to achieve the purpose of fully utilizing edge resources.
Here, the central management and control device 101 of the present embodiment may be a logic device with capabilities of resource scheduling, image management, operation and maintenance management, etc., where these functions may be implemented by deploying one physical machine or virtual machine, or may be deployed in a decentralized manner on multiple physical machines or virtual machines. Of course, the central control device of the embodiment may also be one or more physical devices with capabilities of resource scheduling, mirror image management, and the like. The embodiment of the present application is not limited to the implementation structure of the central control device 101, and any device structure with the above-mentioned capabilities is applicable to the embodiment of the present application.
Similar to the central management and control device 101, the edge management and control device 103 may also be a logic device, where the capability may be implemented on one physical machine (for example, a resource device or a proprietary device in an edge cloud node) or a virtual machine, or may be distributed and deployed on multiple physical machines (for example, a resource device or a proprietary device in an edge cloud node) or virtual machines. Of course, the edge management device may also be one or more physical devices with corresponding capabilities. The implementation structure of the edge management and control device 103 is not limited, and any device structure with corresponding capability is applicable to the embodiments of the present application.
In the embodiment of the present application, a secure and encrypted communication channel is established between the central management and control device 101 and the edge management and control device 103, and interaction is performed based on the communication channel. The communication channel includes a control interface and a data interface, and the central control device 101 performs interaction of a control plane and a data plane with the edge control device 103 based on the control interface and the data interface, so as to complete scheduling and control of the edge cloud node 102. The data interface is used for data transmission between the central control device 101 and the edge control device 103. The control interface has, but is not limited to, the following functions:
1. resource scheduling capability: the central management and control device 101 can perform resource scheduling on edge cloud nodes from multiple dimensions through a control interface (which can be simply called a resource scheduling interface) with resource scheduling capability, and the edge cloud nodes are objects for performing resource scheduling by the central management and control device 101;
2. mirror management and distribution capabilities: the central management and control device 101 can provide the mirror image to the edge Yun Jiedian through a control interface (simply referred to as a mirror image management interface) with mirror image management and distribution capability, so that an edge cloud node can create a corresponding instance according to the received mirror image, and cloud computing service is provided through the instance;
3. Operation and maintenance management capability: the central management and control device 101 performs operation and maintenance management on the edge cloud nodes through a control interface (abbreviated as an operation and maintenance management interface) with operation and maintenance management capability, and the operation and maintenance management includes but is not limited to: applications, virtualization software, etc. in the edge cloud nodes are managed, and the state, resource usage, infrastructure, etc. of the instances are monitored.
Corresponding to the capabilities of the control interface described above, the central control apparatus 101 of the present embodiment has, but is not limited to, the following functions:
1. the resource scheduling can be performed on the edge cloud node according to service demand description information, such as service specifications, areas where the service needs to be deployed, distribution of an operator network, network delay, load conditions, bandwidth cost, required resource types, performance requirements of resource equipment and the like;
2. the method comprises the steps that a mirror image required by cloud computing service can be acquired, and the mirror image is provided for corresponding resource equipment in an edge cloud node for configuration installation, so that the corresponding resource equipment can create corresponding examples to provide the cloud computing service;
3. edge cloud nodes may be managed, including but not limited to: and controlling the states, resource consumption, infrastructure conditions and the like of the applications, the virtualized components and the instances in the edge cloud nodes, and realizing remote operation and maintenance, log management and the like.
In addition to the above functions, the central control device may also have other functions, such as a security function, involving security of the central control device, security of links between the central control device and the edge control device and between the edge cloud nodes, security of the edge cloud nodes; is responsible for maintaining networking information in a network system and the like.
The following describes a procedure in which the center controlling apparatus 101 and the edge controlling apparatus 103 cooperate with each other:
in the network system 100, at least one edge cloud node 102 may form a resource pool, and each edge cloud node 102 serves as a scheduling object to provide various resources or cloud computing services under the scheduling of the central management and control device 101. The central management and control device 101 and the edge management and control device 102 are mutually matched, so that resource scheduling can be performed on at least one edge cloud node 102 alone, mirror image management and distribution can be performed on at least one edge cloud node 102 alone, and of course, resource scheduling can be performed on at least one edge cloud node 102, and mirror images can be provided for at least one edge cloud node 102. In addition to resource scheduling and image management and distribution for the edge cloud nodes 102, management and control of the edge cloud nodes 102 in other respects is also a problem that the network system 100 needs to solve, and successful solution of this problem is also the basis of "putting cloud computing into edge cloud nodes closer to the terminal for processing". To this end, the central management and control device 101 and the edge management and control device 102 cooperate with each other, and may also manage at least one edge cloud node 102 in other ways.
In the following embodiments of the present application, various functions implemented by the central management and control apparatus 101 or the cooperation of the central management and control apparatus 101 and the edge management and control apparatus 103 will be described in detail.
And (3) management and control functions:
in the embodiment of the present application, the central management and control device may manage and control at least one edge cloud node with the assistance of the edge management and control device. In detail, the edge management and control device can monitor at least one edge cloud node and report monitoring data to the central management and control device, so that the central management and control device can manage and control the at least one edge cloud node according to the monitoring data. The central management and control equipment can manage and control at least one edge cloud node according to the monitoring data reported by the edge management and control equipment. Optionally, for the edge management and control device, at least one edge cloud node may be monitored under the control of the central management and control device, and the monitoring data may be reported to the central management and control device. Or, the edge management and control device may periodically monitor at least one edge cloud node according to the timing task and report the monitored data to the central management and control device. In any implementation mode, the edge management and control equipment mainly plays the roles of monitoring, data acquisition, reporting and the like, and the management and control decision is determined by the central management and control equipment.
The central control device controls the edge control device to monitor at least one edge cloud node, which may be, but is not limited to, the following optional embodiments:
in an alternative embodiment, the central control device may send a first type of monitoring instruction to the edge control device, so as to instruct the edge control device to monitor the at least one edge cloud node from the at least one monitoring dimension and report monitoring data on the at least one monitoring dimension to the central control device. The first type of monitoring instruction is a monitoring instruction for instructing the edge management and control device to monitor the at least one edge cloud node from the at least one monitoring dimension and report monitoring data on the at least one monitoring dimension. For the edge management and control equipment, a first type of monitoring instruction sent by the central management and control equipment can be received, at least one edge cloud node is monitored from at least one monitoring dimension according to the first type of monitoring instruction, and monitoring data in at least one monitoring dimension is reported to the central management and control equipment. And the central management and control equipment manages and controls at least one edge cloud node according to the monitoring data in at least one monitoring dimension reported by the edge management and control equipment. It should be noted that at least one monitoring dimension can be flexibly set according to application requirements and preset into the edge management and control equipment and the central management and control equipment. See the following examples for examples of monitoring dimensions.
In another alternative embodiment, the central management device may selectively manage at least one edge cloud node in one or more monitoring dimensions. Based on the above, the central management and control device may send a second type of monitoring instruction to the edge management and control device, where the second type of monitoring instruction corresponds to the specified monitoring dimension, and instruct the edge management and control device to monitor at least one edge cloud node in the specified monitoring dimension and report monitoring data in the specified monitoring dimension. And for the edge management and control equipment, a second type of monitoring instruction sent by the central management and control equipment can be received, at least one edge cloud node is monitored in a designated monitoring dimension according to the second type of monitoring instruction, and monitoring data in the designated monitoring dimension is reported to the central management and control equipment so that the central management and control equipment can manage and control the at least one edge cloud node according to the monitoring data in the designated monitoring dimension. The central management and control equipment is also used for receiving the monitoring data in the appointed monitoring dimension sent by the edge management and control equipment, and managing and controlling at least one edge cloud node according to the monitoring data in the appointed monitoring dimension.
It should be noted that the designated monitoring dimension may be one or more. In the case that the specified monitoring dimensions are plural, each specified monitoring dimension may correspond to one second type of monitoring instruction, that is, the central management and control device may send plural second type of monitoring instructions to the edge management and control device, and each second type of monitoring instruction corresponds to one specified monitoring dimension. Or, in the case that the number of the designated operation and maintenance is multiple, the multiple designated monitoring dimensions may also correspond to the same second type of monitoring instruction, that is, the central management and control device may send a second type of monitoring instruction to the edge management and control device, where the second type of monitoring instruction corresponds to the multiple designated monitoring dimensions.
Optionally, the edge management and control device periodically monitors the at least one edge cloud node according to the timing task may periodically monitor the at least one edge cloud node from the at least one monitoring dimension according to the timing task; further, the monitoring data in at least one monitoring dimension may be reported to the central controlling device. The monitoring periods in different monitoring dimensions may be the same or different. For example, the edge management and control device may perform security breach scanning on the edge cloud node every 10 minutes, or perform traffic monitoring on the edge cloud node every 5 minutes.
The at least one monitoring dimension or designated monitoring dimension may include, but is not limited to, the following dimensions: object dimension in run state, log dimension, security dimension, resource dimension, etc. Further, the object dimensions in the run state may include a run state dimension of the object and/or a lifecycle dimension of the object; the security dimension may include: traffic attack dimension and/or security vulnerability dimension.
In combination with the several monitoring dimensions listed above, the central management and control device, with the assistance of the edge management and control device, manages at least one edge cloud node including, but not limited to, at least one of the following management and control examples:
Control example 1: the central control equipment controls the edge control equipment to monitor the state of an object in an operation state in at least one edge cloud node. The control mode comprises the steps of sending a first type of monitoring instruction or a second type of monitoring instruction corresponding to the running state dimension of the object to the edge management and control equipment. The edge management and control equipment is controlled by the central management and control equipment, or periodically monitors the state of the object in the running state in at least one edge cloud node according to the timing task, and reports the monitored running state of the object in the running state to the central management and control equipment. The central management and control equipment identifies an object with abnormal running state from the running state of the object in the running state, which is reported by the edge management and control equipment, and for convenience of description and distinction, the object with abnormal running state is called a target object and is subjected to exception processing aiming at the target object. Wherein, the objects in the running state in the edge cloud node include, but are not limited to: examples, images, containers, other virtual components, physical machines, CPUs, and/or hard disks, etc. The abnormal condition of the running state may be different according to the object in the running state. For example, for an instance, possible exception conditions include, but are not limited to: interrupts, errors, and/or faults, etc. As another example, for a physical machine, possible exceptions include, but are not limited to: dead halt, black screen, alarm and/or flashing back of an application running on the physical machine, etc. Depending on the target object and the abnormal conditions of the running state, the abnormal handling manner may also be different, for example, but not limited to: alarm, stop or restart the target object, migrate, and/or delete and reconstruct the target object, etc.
Control example 2: the central control device controls the edge control device to monitor the life cycle of the object in the running state in the at least one edge cloud node. The control mode comprises the steps of sending a first type of monitoring instruction or a second type of monitoring instruction corresponding to the life cycle dimension of the object to the edge management and control equipment. The edge management and control equipment monitors the life cycle of the object in the running state in at least one edge cloud node under the control of the central management and control equipment or periodically according to the timing task, and reports the monitored life cycle of the object in the running state to the central management and control equipment. And the central management and control equipment controls the running object to stop, restart, migrate or delete after stopping according to the life cycle of the running object reported by the edge management and control equipment.
Control example 3: the central control equipment controls the edge control equipment to collect log data in at least one edge cloud node. The control mode comprises the steps of sending a first type of monitoring instruction or sending a second type of monitoring instruction corresponding to the log dimension to the edge management and control equipment. The edge management and control equipment is controlled by the central management and control equipment, or periodically collects log data in at least one edge cloud node according to a timing task, and reports the collected log data to the central management and control equipment. The central control equipment receives the log data reported by the edge control equipment, performs data analysis on the log data, and executes subsequent actions according to the data analysis result, such as charging, wind control, increase and/or decrease of instances and the like. Depending on the log data, the follow-up actions may also be different. Alternatively, the log data may include, but is not limited to: data such as various performances, indexes and the like in the edge cloud node, for example: the bandwidth flow of the instance, the current running condition of the instance, the IO load of the instance, the bandwidth flow of the physical machine, the current running condition of the physical machine, the IO load of the physical machine, the running condition of the edge management and control equipment and/or the running condition of other virtualization components, and the like.
Optionally, the central control device not only can collect log data of each edge cloud node reported by the edge control device, but also has the capability of data inspection, and for some data, if the data stored by the central control device and the data in the edge cloud node are inconsistent, the central control device can actively synchronize the latest data to the edge cloud node, for example, can synchronize the latest version of mirror image to the edge cloud node.
Control example 4: the central control equipment controls the edge control equipment to monitor the flow of at least one edge cloud node. The control mode comprises the steps of sending a first type of monitoring instruction or a second type of monitoring instruction corresponding to the flow attack dimension to the edge management and control equipment. And the edge management and control equipment monitors the flow of at least one edge cloud node under the control of the central management and control equipment or periodically according to the timing task, and reports the monitored flow attack event to the central management and control equipment. And the central control equipment performs blocking processing on the traffic attack event in the edge cloud node. Optionally, the edge management and control device may further report the monitored traffic data to the central management and control device, where the central management and control device may further perform traffic attack defense on at least one edge cloud node according to the traffic data.
Control example 5: the central control equipment controls the edge control equipment to scan network security vulnerabilities for at least one edge cloud node. The control mode comprises the steps of sending a first type of monitoring instruction or a second type of monitoring instruction corresponding to the network security dimension to the edge management and control equipment. And the edge management and control equipment performs network security vulnerability scanning on at least one edge cloud node under the control of the central management and control equipment or periodically according to a timing task, and reports the scanned network security vulnerability problem to the central management and control equipment. The central control equipment receives the network security hole problem reported by the edge control equipment and repairs the network security hole problem.
Control example 6: the central controlling device controls the edge controlling device to monitor the resource usage in the at least one edge cloud node. The control mode comprises the steps of sending a first type of monitoring instruction or a second type of monitoring instruction corresponding to the resource dimension to the edge management and control equipment. The edge management and control equipment monitors the resource consumption in at least one edge cloud node under the control of the central management and control equipment or periodically according to the timing task, and reports the monitored resource consumption information to the central management and control equipment. And the central management and control equipment performs resource capacity expansion or capacity reduction on at least one edge cloud node according to the resource consumption information reported by the edge management and control equipment. The resources herein include various kinds of resource information such as device resources such as physical machines, storage resources, computing resources such as CPUs, GPUs, network resources such as bandwidths, and the like.
Further, if edge management and control devices are disposed in each edge cloud node, each edge management and control device can monitor the edge cloud node to which the edge cloud node belongs and report monitoring data in the edge cloud node to the central management and control device under the control of the central management and control device or periodically according to a timing task. The central management and control equipment can receive the monitoring data reported by the edge management and control equipment in each edge cloud node, and manages and controls each edge cloud node according to the monitoring data in each edge cloud node.
The embodiment of the application is not limited to the implementation structures of the central management and control equipment and the edge management and control equipment. Optionally, as shown in fig. 1b, a structural frame of the central control device includes: the system comprises a resource scheduling control module, a mirror image control module and a central control module; the central management and control module further includes: a central monitoring unit, a central log unit, a central security unit, etc. Accordingly, a structural framework of an edge management and control apparatus is shown in fig. 1b, comprising: the system comprises a resource scheduling service module, a mirror image service module and an edge management and control module; the edge management and control module further includes: an edge monitoring unit, an edge log unit, an edge security unit, and the like.
The resource scheduling management and control module in the central management and control device and the resource scheduling service module in the edge management and control device are mutually matched, so that resource scheduling can be performed on the edge cloud node, and the resource scheduling function can be described below. The mirror image management and control module in the central management and control device is matched with the mirror image service module in the edge management and control device, mirror image management and distribution can be performed on the edge cloud nodes, and the mirror image management and distribution functions can be described below.
The central control module in the central control equipment is matched with the edge control module in the edge control equipment, so that edge cloud nodes can be controlled. The above-described control examples 1-6 may be implemented by the cooperation of corresponding units in the central control module and the edge control module shown in fig. 1 b. The management and control example 3 may be implemented by cooperation of a central log unit in the central management and control module and an edge log unit in the edge management and control module. In detail, the central log unit sends a first type monitoring instruction or a second type monitoring instruction corresponding to the log dimension to the edge log unit; the edge log unit collects log data in the edge cloud nodes according to the first class or the second class of monitoring instructions and reports the log data to the central log unit; and the central log unit performs data analysis on the log data and executes subsequent actions according to the data analysis result. The control examples 4 and 5 may be implemented by the cooperation of a central security element in the central control module and an edge security element in the edge control module. In detail, the central security unit sends a first type monitoring instruction or a second type operation and maintenance instruction corresponding to a traffic attack or network security dimension to the edge security unit; the edge security unit can monitor the flow of the edge cloud node or scan the network security vulnerabilities according to the first class or the second class of operation and maintenance instructions, and report the monitored flow attack event or the network security vulnerabilities to the central security unit; the central security unit blocks traffic attack events or repairs network security vulnerability problems. The control examples 1, 2 and 6 may be implemented by matching a central monitoring unit in the central control module with an edge monitoring unit in the edge control module, and detailed implementation processes are not described in detail.
From the above, with the assistance of the edge management and control device, the central management and control device can know the health, the resource consumption, the log data and/or the infrastructure of each instance in the edge cloud node, and can realize remote operation and maintenance, log management and the like.
In this embodiment of the present application, except that the central management and control device may perform management and control on at least one edge cloud node, in a case that the central management and control device does not perform management and control on the edge cloud node or cannot perform management and control on the edge cloud node, the edge management and control device may autonomously perform management and control on at least one edge cloud node.
For example, the edge management and control device may monitor a connection condition between the edge management and control device and the central management and control device, and in a case that the connection with the central management and control device is lost, it may be determined that the central management and control device cannot manage the edge cloud nodes, and then at least one edge cloud node may be managed and controlled autonomously from at least one monitoring dimension.
For another example, in a manner that the central control device sends a first type of monitoring instruction to the edge control device to control the edge control device to monitor at least one edge cloud node, the edge control device may wait to receive the first type of monitoring instruction sent by the central control device, and if the first type of monitoring instruction sent by the central control device is not received, it may be determined that the central control device does not or cannot control the at least one edge cloud node, and may autonomously control the at least one edge cloud node from at least one monitoring dimension. Optionally, the edge management and control device and the central management and control device may pre-agree on a waiting duration of the first type of monitoring instruction, and if the waiting duration is exceeded and the first type of monitoring instruction sent by the central management and control device is not received yet, it is determined that the first type of monitoring instruction sent by the central management and control device is not received yet.
For another example, in a manner that the central control device sends a second type of monitoring instruction corresponding to the designated monitoring dimension to the edge control device so as to control the edge control device to monitor the at least one edge cloud node from the designated monitoring dimension, the edge control device may wait to receive the second type of monitoring instruction sent by the central control device, and if the second type of monitoring instruction sent by the central control device is not received in the designated monitoring dimension, it may be determined that the central control device does not or cannot control the at least one edge cloud node in the designated monitoring dimension, and may autonomously control the at least one edge cloud node from the designated monitoring dimension.
Further optionally, if the edge management and control device autonomously manages at least one edge cloud node from at least one monitoring dimension in the event of a loss of connection with the central management and control device, after the connection with the central management and control device is restored, the management and control data during the loss of connection may also be synchronized to the central management and control device. It should be noted that the management and control data mainly includes data such as a policy, a manner, an effect, and the like of management and control, and may also include monitoring data.
The at least one monitoring dimension or designated monitoring dimension may include, but is not limited to, the following: object dimension in run state, log dimension, security dimension, resource dimension, etc. Further, the object dimensions in the run state may include a run state dimension of the object and/or a lifecycle dimension of the object; the security dimension may include: traffic attack dimension and/or security vulnerability dimension.
In connection with the several monitoring dimensions listed above, the edge management and control device autonomously manages at least one edge cloud node including, but not limited to, at least one of the following management and control examples:
control example a: and autonomously monitoring the state of the object in the running state in at least one edge cloud node, and performing exception handling on the monitored object with the abnormal running state. For the objects in the running state, abnormal conditions of the running state, and the like, reference may be made to the above description, and the description thereof will not be repeated.
Optionally, in example a, the edge management and control device is specifically configured to, when performing exception handling for the target object: analyzing the abnormal running state of the target object, and determining at least one candidate processing mode according to an analysis result; and acquiring a target processing mode from at least one candidate processing mode, and performing exception processing on the target object according to the target processing mode.
Furthermore, when the edge management and control device acquires the target processing mode, the edge management and control device is specifically configured to: reporting at least one candidate processing mode to the central control equipment under the condition that the edge control equipment is connected with the central control equipment, so that the central control equipment can select the processing mode; receiving a processing mode returned by the central control equipment as a target processing mode; or under the condition that the edge control equipment and the central control equipment lose connection, outputting at least one candidate processing mode to the edge control personnel so as to enable the control personnel to select the processing mode from the candidate processing modes; responding to the selection operation of the edge management personnel, and determining the selected processing mode as a target processing mode; or under the condition that the connection with the central control equipment is lost, selecting a target processing mode from at least one candidate processing mode according to a set selection strategy.
And b, controlling the example, namely autonomously monitoring the life cycle of the object in the running state in at least one edge cloud node, and controlling the object in the running state to stop, restart or delete after stopping according to the monitoring result. For a container or instance, the container or instance may be controlled to stop executing, restart after stopping, or delete the container or instance, etc.
Control example c: and automatically collecting log data in at least one edge cloud node, carrying out data analysis on the log data, and executing subsequent actions according to the data analysis result. The log data includes, but is not limited to, bandwidth traffic of an instance in the edge cloud node, current running conditions of the instance, IO load of the instance, bandwidth traffic of the physical machine, current running conditions of the physical machine, IO load of the physical machine, running conditions of the edge management and control device, and/or running conditions of other virtualized components, etc. Optionally, follow-up actions such as charging, wind control and/or resource reallocation can be performed according to the analysis result of the log data, but not limited thereto.
And d, autonomously monitoring traffic of at least one edge cloud node by the control example, and blocking the monitored traffic attack event.
Control example e: and autonomously scanning network security vulnerabilities of at least one edge cloud node, and repairing scanned network security vulnerabilities.
Control example f: and autonomously monitoring the resource consumption in the at least one edge cloud node, and carrying out resource capacity expansion or capacity reduction on the at least one edge cloud node according to the monitoring result. Resources herein include, but are not limited to: device resources such as physical machines, storage resources such as memories and magnetic disks, computing resources such as CPUs and GPUs, and network resources such as bandwidths. When the consumption is high, the capacity of the resources can be expanded, and when the consumption is low, the capacity of the resources can be reduced.
Further, if edge management and control devices are disposed in each edge cloud node, each edge management and control device can autonomously manage and control the edge cloud node to which the center management and control device belongs under the condition that the center management and control device does not manage or cannot manage and control the edge cloud node to which the center management and control device belongs.
Optionally, in examples a-e above where the edge management and control device autonomously manages the at least one edge cloud node, the edge management and control device may periodically manage the at least one edge cloud node according to a timing task. For example, in example d, the edge management and control device may monitor traffic of at least one edge cloud node every 10 minutes according to the timing task, and perform blocking processing for the monitored traffic attack event. For another example, in example e, the edge management and control device may scan at least one edge cloud node for network security vulnerabilities every 5 minutes according to a timing task and fix the scanned network security vulnerabilities. Of course, the edge management and control device may also autonomously manage at least one edge cloud node according to an autonomous policy in other manners, for example, may autonomously manage at least one edge cloud node at a fixed point in time every day.
In some alternative embodiments, the above-described governance may be governance of the operational dimension. For example, the central management and control device may perform operation and maintenance management and control on at least one edge cloud node with the assistance of the edge management and control device. In the operation and maintenance management and control scenario, the at least one monitoring dimension or the designated monitoring dimension may be an operation and maintenance dimension, and then the central management and control device may perform operation and maintenance management and control on at least one edge cloud node according to the monitoring data on the at least one operation and maintenance dimension or the designated operation and maintenance dimension reported by the edge management and control device. In addition, the edge management and control equipment can autonomously perform operation and maintenance management and control on at least one edge cloud node under the condition that the center management and control equipment does not perform operation and maintenance management and control on the edge cloud node or cannot perform operation and maintenance management and control on the edge cloud node. For example, the edge management and control device may perform operation and control on at least one edge cloud node according to the monitored at least one operation and maintenance dimension or the monitored data on the designated operation and maintenance dimension. The foregoing embodiments may be referred to for details of the central management and control device or the edge management and control device for performing operation and maintenance management on at least one edge cloud node, and will not be described herein.
In the operation and maintenance control scenario, combining the above examples 1-6 and examples a-f, in this embodiment, the central control device is combined with the edge control device, and the central control device can perform operation and maintenance control on at least one edge cloud node with the assistance of the edge control device, in addition, the edge control device also has a certain self-operation and maintenance control capability, and can perform operation and maintenance control on the edge cloud node autonomously under the condition that the central control device does not perform operation and maintenance control on the edge cloud node or cannot perform operation and maintenance control on the edge cloud node, so as to implement two-stage operation and maintenance control, perform operation and maintenance control on the edge cloud node more fully and comprehensively, provide conditions for 'putting cloud computing into the edge cloud node closer to a terminal', further provide cloud computing service for users with the help of resources in the edge cloud node, be beneficial to reducing response time delay, reducing the pressure of a central cloud or a traditional cloud computing platform, and reducing bandwidth cost.
Resource scheduling function:
the central management and control device may schedule resources of at least one edge cloud, mainly determining a target edge cloud node that may be scheduled and resource information that may be scheduled in the target edge cloud node from at least one edge cloud node 102 in the network system 100 according to service requirement description information; and sending the resource information to the edge management and control equipment 103, so that the edge management and control equipment 103 controls corresponding resource equipment in the target edge cloud node to perform resource allocation or reservation. Optionally, the number of the target edge cloud nodes may be specified by a user, or may be determined autonomously by the resource central management and control device according to the service requirement description information, and may be one or a plurality of target edge cloud nodes. The service requirement description information can be directly submitted by the service requirement party, or can be extracted or calculated from the service related information submitted by the service requirement party. The service demander may be a user, or may be an application, a physical machine, or another service that requires a certain service, or the like.
The resource scheduling functions described herein mainly include, but are not limited to, two aspects of selection of edge cloud nodes and scheduling of resources within edge cloud nodes. The method comprises the steps of determining scheduled resource information in a target edge cloud node and providing the resource information, wherein the resource scheduling in the edge cloud node is specifically embodied in the operation of determining the scheduled resource information in the target edge cloud node and providing the resource information, and the main purpose is to distribute cloud computing services to final basic resources, such as resource equipment of a server and the like, on the granularity of each edge cloud node. The central management and control equipment can maintain the information of resources contained in each edge cloud node, and the information is used as a basis of resource scheduling.
Optionally, the service requirement description information includes an edge cloud node selection parameter and a resource selection parameter. The edge cloud node selection parameters refer to parameters required for selecting a target edge cloud node; the resource selection parameter refers to information required to select a resource scheduled within an edge cloud node. Based on the information, the central management and control equipment can analyze the edge cloud node selection parameters and the resource selection parameters from the service demand description information; and determining a scheduled target edge cloud node from at least one edge cloud node according to the edge cloud node selection parameters, and determining scheduled resource information in the target edge cloud node according to the resource selection parameters.
For example, qoS requirements of the scheduling domain and/or cloud computing service may be included in the service requirement description information, and these parameters may be used as edge cloud node selection parameters. Wherein the dispatch domain points to an area where cloud computing services need to be deployed, which determines the geographic location of edge cloud nodes that should be dispatched. QoS requirements of a cloud computing service may include requirements of the cloud computing service for network latency, load conditions, and/or bandwidth costs, among others. Based on the above, the central management and control device can select the edge cloud node capable of meeting the requirements of the scheduling domain and/or the QoS as the target edge cloud node according to the requirements of the scheduling domain and/or the QoS of the cloud computing service by combining the geographic position and the resource remaining amount of at least one edge cloud node.
For example, the central control device may select, according to the scheduling domain, an edge cloud node pointed by the scheduling domain as a target edge cloud node in combination with a geographic location of at least one edge cloud node. Or, the central control device may further select, as the target edge cloud node, an edge cloud node that meets the requirements of network delay, load condition and/or bandwidth cost from the edge cloud nodes according to QoS requirements of the cloud computing service, for example, requirements of network delay, load condition and/or bandwidth cost. Of course, the central management and control device may also select, as the target edge cloud node, an edge cloud node capable of meeting the requirements of the scheduling domain and the QoS simultaneously in combination with the geographic location and the resource remaining amount of at least one edge cloud node according to the requirements of the QoS of the scheduling domain and the cloud computing service.
The service requirement description information may include, in addition to information including QoS requirements of the scheduling domain and/or the cloud computing service, parameters such as a resource type, a resource number, and/or performance of the resource device required by the cloud computing service, which may be used as resource selection parameters. Based on this, the central management and control device may determine, after determining the target edge cloud node, the scheduled resource information in the target edge cloud node according to the resource selection parameter. The resource information here may include: the information such as the resource type, the resource quantity and/or the performance requirement on the resource equipment is convenient for the edge management and control equipment to control the corresponding resource equipment in the target edge cloud node to allocate or reserve the resource according to the information. For example, resource types may include, but are not limited to: and the CPU, the GPU and other computing resources, memory, hard disk and other storage resources, bandwidth resources and other resource types. Taking CPU resources as an example, the number of the resources can be 12 CPUs, 24 CPUs and the like, taking memory resources as an example, the number of the resources can be 16G memory, 32G memory and the like; taking bandwidth resources as an example, the number of resources may be 1M bandwidth, 10M bandwidth, etc.
Optionally, the central management and control device may further have a function of computing power arrangement, where computing power arrangement is for a relatively complex application scenario, and binds multiple cloud computing services together as a minimum resource requirement unit, so that in a resource scheduling process, multiple cloud computing services bound together may be taken as a whole, and one or several edge cloud nodes may be selected for them, and resources may be provided for them together by the same or several edge cloud nodes. The computing power arrangement improves the diversity of resource scheduling, increases the flexibility of resource scheduling, and does not affect the whole flow of resource scheduling.
In combination with the implementation structures of the central management and control device and the edge management and control device shown in fig. 1b, the above resource scheduling function can be implemented by matching a resource scheduling management and control module and a resource scheduling service module, and detailed processes are not repeated.
Mirror image management and distribution function:
the mirror image management function of the central management control equipment mainly aims at managing mirror images and providing required mirror images for edge cloud nodes. In this way, the edge cloud node may create instances on the respective resource devices according to the mirror image, and thereby provide the user with the desired cloud computing services from the created instances.
In practical applications, the scenarios that need to provide mirroring for edge cloud nodes are diverse. For example, in the event that a user (e.g., a service demander) submits service demand description information, the central management and control device may provide a corresponding mirror image for the target edge cloud node being scheduled. For another example, when the existing instance on the edge cloud node provides the cloud computing service for the user, the user may submit the capacity expansion requirement to the central control device when the user needs to perform service expansion, and in order to achieve the capacity expansion purpose, a corresponding mirror image needs to be provided for the edge cloud node that is providing the cloud computing service for the user at present, so that the edge cloud node creates a new instance based on the mirror image, thereby achieving the capacity expansion purpose. For convenience of description and distinction, in the following description, an edge Yun Jiedian for which mirroring is required is denoted as a first edge cloud node, which may be any edge cloud node in the network system, depending on an application scenario. The mirror image management function of the central control device is described below by taking the central control device as an example of providing a mirror image for the first edge cloud node.
When the mirror image needs to be provided for the first edge cloud node, the central control equipment can firstly determine a target mirror image which needs to be provided for the first edge cloud node; then, providing a target image for the first edge cloud node, so that the first edge cloud node can provide cloud computing services by utilizing the target image.
In the network system 100 of the present embodiment, a mirror library for storing mirrors in the system is maintained. The user may choose to use the images in the image library. For example, a mirror configuration interface may be provided to the user with a drop down menu that includes a number of mirrors available for user selection, which the user may select for his own use. Based on the above, when the mirror image needs to be provided for the first edge cloud node, the central control device can acquire the mirror image required by the first edge cloud node from the mirror image library, then provide the mirror image for the first edge cloud node, and open the use authority of the mirror image to the corresponding user. Optionally, the central management and control device may directly issue the target image to the first edge cloud node, or instruct the first edge cloud node to download the target image to the designated storage location.
In addition, the central control device can also maintain the corresponding relation between the issued image and the edge cloud node where the issued image is located. The corresponding relation can comprise the identification information of the issued mirror image and the identification information of the edge cloud node where the issued mirror image is located. Issued images refer to images that the central management and control device has provided (e.g., issued) to one or more edge cloud nodes; the edge cloud node where the issued image is located refers to the edge cloud node to which the issued image is provided. The same image may be provided (e.g., issued) to one edge cloud node or may be provided (e.g., issued) to multiple edge cloud nodes.
Based on the corresponding relation between the maintained issued mirror image and the edge cloud node where the issued mirror image is located, when the mirror image needs to be provided for the first edge cloud node, the central control device can also control the first edge cloud node to acquire the mirror image from other edge cloud nodes which already have the mirror image, the mirror image does not need to be directly provided for the first edge cloud node, the processing burden of the central control device can be reduced to a certain extent, and under the condition of reasonable control, the acquisition efficiency of the mirror image can also be improved.
In detail, when the mirror image needs to be provided for the first edge cloud node, the central management and control device may determine that the mirror image needs to be provided for the first edge cloud node, and in the embodiment of the present application, the mirror image needs to be provided for the first edge cloud node is recorded as a target mirror image for convenience of description and distinction; according to the information of the target image, matching is carried out in the corresponding relation between the maintained issued image and the edge cloud node where the issued image is located; if a second edge cloud node corresponding to the target image is matched in the corresponding relation, which means that the target image is already provided to the second edge cloud node, the target image at the second edge cloud node can be provided to the first edge cloud node; the number of the second edge cloud nodes can be one or a plurality of edge cloud nodes in the network system. For the first edge cloud node, the target image at the second edge cloud node may be acquired under the control of the central management and control device 101.
Here, in the case that the network system 100 includes the edge management and control device 103, the central management and control device may specifically send information of the second edge cloud node and the target image to the edge management and control device; the edge management and control device 103 provides the target image at the second edge cloud node to corresponding resource devices in the first edge cloud node according to the information of the second edge cloud node and the target image, so that the corresponding resource devices create an instance capable of providing cloud computing service according to the target image, and further provide the cloud computing service for the service demander. The information of the second edge cloud node may be any information capable of identifying the second edge cloud node, for example, may be information such as an ID, a name, or a geographic location of the second edge cloud node. The information of the target image may be any information capable of identifying the target image, for example, an ID, a name, or a number of the target image, or the like.
Further, in the case that the edge management and control device 103 is disposed in each of the first edge cloud node and the second edge cloud node, the central management and control device 101 may specifically send information of the second edge cloud node and the target image to the edge management and control device in the first edge cloud node, so that the edge management and control device in the first edge cloud node obtains the target image from the second edge cloud node through a communication channel between the edge management and control device in the second edge cloud node and provides the target image to the corresponding resource device in the first edge cloud node. For the edge management and control device 103 in the first edge cloud node, the information of the second edge cloud node and the target image sent by the central management and control device 101 can be received, the target image is obtained from the second edge cloud node through a communication channel between the second edge cloud node and the edge management and control device in the second edge cloud node according to the information of the second edge cloud node and the target image, and the target image is provided for corresponding resource devices in the first edge cloud node, so that the corresponding resource devices can create an instance capable of providing cloud computing service according to the target image, and further provide cloud computing service.
Still further, a process for the edge management and control device 103 in the first edge cloud node to obtain the target image from the second edge cloud node through a communication channel between the edge management and control device and the edge management and control device in the second edge cloud node includes: the edge management and control device 103 in the first edge cloud node sends a request for acquiring the target image to the edge management and control device 103 in the second edge cloud node through a communication channel between the edge management and control device and the edge management and control device in the second edge cloud node, wherein the request carries information of the target image. The edge management and control equipment 103 in the second edge cloud node receives the request, judges whether the target image exists in the second edge cloud node according to the information of the target image carried in the request, and returns the target image to the edge management and control equipment 103 in the first edge cloud node or returns the storage address of the target image in the second edge cloud node to the edge management and control equipment 103 in the first edge cloud node through a communication channel between the target image and the edge management and control equipment 103 in the first edge cloud node under the condition that the target image exists in the second edge cloud node. The edge management and control device 103 in the first edge cloud node receives the target image returned by the edge management and control device 103 in the second edge cloud node, or receives the storage address of the target image returned by the edge management and control device 103 in the second edge cloud node, and reads or downloads the target image according to the storage address.
It should be noted that, the edge management and control device 103 in the first edge cloud node and the edge management and control device 103 in the second edge cloud node may establish a communication channel by themselves, or may establish a channel under the control of the central management and control device 101. Optionally, the central control device may also control the establishment of a communication channel between different edge control devices, and is responsible for maintaining information about existing communication channels between edge control devices, for example, information about which edge control devices have established a communication channel between edge control devices, when the communication channel is established, the state of the communication channel, the duration of the maintenance, and so on. Based on the above, after determining that the target image has been provided to the second edge cloud node and before providing the information of the second edge cloud node and the target image to the edge management and control device in the first edge cloud node, the central management and control device may further determine, according to the maintained information of the existing communication channel between the edge management and control devices, whether the communication channel already exists between the edge management and control device in the first edge cloud node and the edge management and control device in the second edge cloud node; if the judgment result is negative, that is, a communication channel does not exist between the edge management and control equipment in the first edge cloud node and the edge management and control equipment in the second edge cloud node, the edge management and control equipment in the first edge cloud node and the edge management and control equipment in the second edge cloud node can be controlled to establish the communication channel, so that the edge management and control equipment in the first edge cloud node can acquire the target image from the second edge cloud node through the communication channel. And after the edge management and control equipment in the first edge cloud node and the edge management and control equipment in the second edge cloud node establish a communication channel, the center management and control equipment provides information of the second edge cloud node and the target image to the edge management and control equipment in the first edge cloud node. Of course, if the judgment result is yes, that is, a communication channel already exists between the edge management and control device in the first edge cloud node and the edge management and control device in the second edge cloud node, the information of the second edge cloud node and the target image can be directly provided to the edge management and control device in the first edge cloud node.
It should be noted that, after the information of the second edge cloud node and the target image is provided to the edge management and control device in the first edge cloud node, the central management and control device may determine, according to the maintained information of the existing communication channel between the edge management and control devices, whether the communication channel already exists between the edge management and control device in the first edge cloud node and the edge management and control device in the second edge cloud node; if the judgment result is negative, that is, a communication channel does not exist between the edge management and control equipment in the first edge cloud node and the edge management and control equipment in the second edge cloud node, the edge management and control equipment in the first edge cloud node and the edge management and control equipment in the second edge cloud node can be controlled to establish the communication channel, so that the edge management and control equipment in the first edge cloud node can acquire the target image from the second edge cloud node through the communication channel.
In some optional embodiments, in order to ensure efficiency of the first edge cloud node to acquire the target image, before providing the target image at the second edge cloud node to the first edge cloud node, the central management and control device may further determine, according to an attribute of the second edge cloud node, whether the second edge cloud node is suitable for providing the target image for the first edge cloud node; if the judgment result is yes, namely the second edge cloud node is suitable for providing the target image for the first edge cloud node, the target image at the second edge cloud node can be provided for the first edge cloud node; if the judgment result is negative, the target image can be obtained from the image library and provided to the first edge cloud node.
It is worth to describe that, according to different application scenarios and application requirements, different attributes of the second edge cloud node can be combined, and whether the second edge cloud node is suitable for providing the target mirror image for the first edge cloud node can be judged from different angles. The following is illustrative:
for example, it may be determined, in combination with an operator to which the second edge cloud node belongs, whether the operator to which the second edge cloud node belongs is the same as the operator to which the first edge cloud node belongs; if the judgment result is yes, the second edge cloud node and the first edge cloud node are edge cloud nodes under the same operator, data transmission can be carried out on the second edge cloud node and the first edge cloud node, the data transmission rate is faster than the data transmission rate of the cross operator, and the method is suitable for providing a target mirror image for the first edge cloud node.
For another example, whether the distance between the second edge cloud node and the first edge cloud node is smaller than a set distance threshold value can be judged by combining the position attribute of the second edge cloud node; if the judgment result is yes, the fact that the second edge cloud node is relatively close to the first edge cloud node is indicated, and the object mirror image is suitable for providing the first edge cloud node, so that the second edge cloud node relatively close to the first edge cloud node provides the mirror image for the first edge cloud node, the first edge cloud node can conveniently and rapidly acquire the mirror image, and efficiency is improved. The distance between the second edge cloud node and the first edge cloud node can be the average distance between the two edge cloud nodes, the distance between the centers of the two edge cloud nodes, the distance between the nearest outer edges of the two edge cloud nodes and the like, and can be flexibly defined according to requirements.
For another example, whether the available bandwidth of the second edge cloud node is greater than a set bandwidth threshold may be determined in combination with the bandwidth attribute of the second edge cloud node; if the judgment result is yes, the bandwidth resources of the second edge cloud node are abundant, and the method is suitable for providing the target mirror image for the first edge cloud node, so that the second edge cloud node with abundant bandwidth resources provides the mirror image for the first edge cloud node, the transmission rate of the mirror image can be ensured, the first edge cloud node can acquire the mirror image quickly, and the efficiency is improved.
For another example, whether the load capacity of the second edge cloud node is smaller than a set load capacity threshold value may be determined by combining the load attribute of the second edge cloud node; if the judgment result is yes, the fact that the load of the second edge cloud node is lighter is indicated, the second edge cloud node is suitable for providing the target mirror image for the first edge cloud node, and therefore the second edge cloud node with lighter load provides the mirror image for the first edge cloud node, on one hand, load balancing can be achieved, on the other hand, the first edge cloud node can acquire the mirror image conveniently and rapidly, and efficiency is improved.
It should be noted that the above-listed ways may be used alternatively or in any combination, and this will not be described in any way.
Further, in the case that the second edge cloud nodes are multiple, the above several modes may be combined with multiple attributes of the second edge cloud nodes, so as to select a second edge cloud node suitable for providing the target image for the first edge cloud node. For example, if there are multiple second edge cloud nodes, the operators to which the multiple second edge cloud nodes belong may be combined, and a second edge cloud node that belongs to the same operator as the first edge cloud node may be selected from the multiple second edge cloud nodes; furthermore, if the selected second edge cloud nodes are still multiple, the second edge cloud node with the minimum load or lower than the set load threshold can be selected from the selected second edge cloud nodes according to the load of the selected second edge cloud nodes, and a target mirror image is provided for the first edge cloud node.
In some alternative embodiments, it may be that the target image has already been provided to the first edge cloud node, for example, in a traffic volume expansion scenario, the image that needs to be used for creating a new instance in the edge cloud node that is currently providing cloud computing service for the service demander is the same as the image that is used by the previous instance, and if the image that is used by the previous instance is also saved in the edge cloud node, the image may not be provided repeatedly for the edge cloud node. For this case, in order to save resources, before providing the target image at the second edge cloud node to the first edge cloud node, the central management and control device may determine whether the maintained correspondence between the issued image and the edge cloud node where the issued image is located includes the first edge cloud node; if the judgment result is yes, the fact that the target mirror image is provided for the first edge cloud node is indicated, and the target mirror image is still stored in the first edge cloud node, information of the target mirror image can be provided for the first edge cloud node, the first edge cloud node can read the target mirror image stored in the first edge cloud node, the target mirror image does not need to be transmitted again, and network resources consumed by transmitting the target mirror image can be saved; if the judgment result is negative, the target image is not provided for the first edge cloud node, or the target image does not exist in the first edge cloud node, the target image at the second edge cloud node can be provided for the first edge cloud node. Under the condition that the edge management and control equipment is deployed in the first edge cloud node, if the central management and control equipment judges that the corresponding relation between the maintained issued image and the edge cloud node where the issued image is located contains the target image, information of the target image can be provided to the edge management and control equipment in the first edge cloud node, the edge management and control equipment in the first edge cloud node can acquire the target image from a space for storing the image in the first edge cloud node according to the information of the target image, and the target image is provided to corresponding resource equipment in the first edge cloud node so as to provide an instance capable of providing cloud computing service for the corresponding resource equipment according to the target image.
Further alternatively, it is possible that the same edge cloud node provides multiple cloud computing services for the same user or different users, i.e., multiple images may be received, which may be stored in the edge cloud node. The edge cloud node may provide a certain storage space for storing the image. Considering that the storage space of the images in the edge cloud nodes has a certain limit, in order to have enough storage space to store the newly received images, the edge cloud nodes need to eliminate the locally stored images. In this embodiment, the central management and control device is responsible for providing a mirrored elimination policy for the edge cloud nodes. The central management and control equipment can generate a mirror image elimination strategy, the elimination strategy is issued to each edge cloud node, and each edge cloud node eliminates the stored mirror image according to the elimination strategy. Under the condition that the network system comprises the edge management and control equipment, the central management and control equipment can issue an elimination strategy to the edge management and control equipment, and the edge management and control equipment performs elimination processing on the images stored in each edge cloud node according to the elimination strategy. Further, under the condition that edge management and control equipment is deployed in each edge cloud node, the central management and control equipment can issue an elimination strategy to the edge management and control equipment in each edge cloud node, and the edge management and control equipment in each edge cloud node performs elimination processing on the images stored in the edge cloud nodes to which the edge cloud node belongs according to the elimination strategy.
Alternatively, the elimination policy may be an earliest-received-time elimination policy, that is, the image with the earliest receiving time is preferentially eliminated according to the receiving time of the image. Alternatively, the elimination policy may be a least frequently used elimination policy, i.e., images with the least frequently used are preferentially eliminated according to the frequency of use of the images. Alternatively, the elimination policy may be a maximum resource occupation elimination policy, that is, the mirror image occupying the maximum storage space is eliminated preferentially according to the size of the storage space occupied by the mirror image.
For the edge cloud node, the image stored in the node can be eliminated periodically according to the elimination strategy; or, when the new image needs to be received or acquired, judging whether the node has enough storage space to store the new image, and when the node does not have enough storage space, performing elimination processing on the image stored in the node according to the elimination strategy so as to store the new image. Taking an example that a first edge cloud node needs to acquire a target image from a second edge cloud node, before edge control equipment in the first edge cloud node acquires the target image from the second edge cloud node, the edge control equipment in the first edge cloud node can judge whether enough storage space exists in the first edge cloud node to store the target image; and if the first edge cloud node does not have enough storage space, performing elimination processing on the images stored in the first edge cloud node according to an elimination policy so as to store the target images in enough storage space. Alternatively, if there is enough storage space in the first edge cloud node, the image stored in the first edge cloud node may not be obsolete temporarily.
Optionally, as shown in fig. 1c, the network system 100 further includes: the mirror image construction device 104. The image construction device 104 may be deployed in one or more edge cloud nodes, and is mainly responsible for construction, verification, etc. of an application image. The image construction device 104 may provide an edge cloud environment, may construct an image adapted to the edge cloud environment, may also verify whether the image is adapted to the edge cloud environment, may reconstruct an image that is not adapted to the edge cloud environment, or may output a prompt message of the disagreement, etc. Based on the image construction device 104, the user can add an image to the network system 100.
In an alternative embodiment of the newly added image, the user (e.g., the service demander) may submit a first request for the newly added image to the central control device, where the first request includes image construction information; the central control equipment sends a construction request to the mirror image construction equipment, wherein the construction request comprises mirror image construction information; after receiving the construction request, the mirror image construction equipment acquires mirror image construction information from the construction request, constructs a mirror image adapted to the edge cloud environment according to the mirror image construction information, and returns the constructed mirror image to the central management and control equipment; the central control equipment receives the newly constructed mirror image returned by the mirror image construction equipment and adds the newly constructed mirror image into the mirror image library, so that the mirror image library is continuously enriched.
In another alternative implementation manner of newly added mirror images, a rule and a specification of the mirror images can be provided for users (such as service demander), so that the users can make or generate the mirror images themselves, and the mirror images generated or made by the users are required to meet related requirements of security, specification and the like of the edge cloud environment. After the user makes or generates the image, a second request for newly adding the image can be sent to the central control device, where the second request includes the image to be newly added, and the newly added image is the image made or generated by the user. The central control equipment receives a second request, acquires a mirror image to be newly added from the second request, and sends the mirror image to be newly added to the mirror image construction equipment; the image construction equipment adapts the image to be newly added to the edge cloud environment; if the image to be newly added is matched with the edge cloud environment, the image construction equipment returns a message for the image to be newly added to be matched with the edge cloud environment to the central control equipment; if the image to be newly added is not matched with the edge cloud environment, the image construction equipment returns a message that the image to be newly added is not matched with the edge cloud environment to the central control equipment.
For the central control equipment, if a message of adapting to the environment of the newly added mirror image and the edge cloud returned by the mirror image construction equipment is received, adding the newly added mirror image into a mirror image library; if a message that the image to be newly added is not adapted to the edge cloud environment is received, which is returned by the image construction service image construction equipment, or the user is informed to re-submit the image to be newly added after the image to be newly added is reconstructed, or the user is informed to provide a reconstruction method of the image to be newly added, so that the image construction service image construction equipment can reconstruct the image to be newly added into the image adapted to the edge cloud environment according to the reconstruction method. If the user provides a reconstruction method of the image to be newly added, the central management and control equipment can provide the reconstruction method for the image construction equipment, the image construction equipment reconstructs the image to be newly added according to the reconstruction method, so that the image is matched with the edge cloud environment, and the reconstructed image is returned to the central management and control equipment; the central control equipment receives the reconstructed mirror image and adds the reconstructed mirror image into a mirror image library.
In this description, the image construction device 104 may be a logic device with functions of image construction, verification, and the like, and these functions may be implemented on one physical machine or virtual machine, or may be distributed and deployed on multiple physical machines or virtual machines. Of course, the image construction device 104 of the present embodiment may be one or more physical devices having functions of image construction, verification, and the like. The embodiment of the application is not limited to the implementation structure of the mirror image construction device, and all the device structures with the functions are applicable to the embodiment of the application.
In the embodiment of the application, not only the images can be newly added into the image library, but also the images which are not used or are not used for a long time can be deleted, so that the storage space is saved. For example, the central control device may periodically or in real time count the usage frequency of each image in the image library, take the image whose usage frequency is less than the frequency threshold as the image to be deleted, and execute the image deletion procedure to delete the image. For another example, the central management and control device may also receive a mirror image deletion request submitted by a user (for example, a service demander), take a mirror image that is indicated to be deleted by the mirror image deletion request as a mirror image to be deleted, and execute a mirror image deletion procedure to delete the mirror image. The image deletion request may carry information of the image to be deleted, such as an ID, a name, or a number.
For the central management and control device, any mode can be used but not limited to the above method for determining the image to be deleted, after the image to be deleted is determined, the image to be deleted can be deleted from the image library on one hand, and on the other hand, the edge cloud node storing the image to be deleted can be indicated to delete the image to be deleted. The central management and control equipment can match the maintained corresponding relationship between the issued mirror image and the edge cloud node where the issued mirror image is located according to the mirror image to be deleted, and determine the edge cloud node where the mirror image to be deleted is stored according to the matching result. If the third edge cloud node corresponding to the mirror image to be deleted is matched in the corresponding relation, the mirror image to be deleted is issued to the third edge cloud node, the mirror image to be deleted is still stored in the third edge cloud node, and then a deleting instruction is sent to the third edge cloud node, wherein the deleting instruction carries information of the mirror image to be deleted so as to instruct the third edge cloud node to delete the stored mirror image to be deleted. The third edge cloud node may be one or more.
Here, in the case where the network system 100 includes the edge management and control device 103, the center management and control device may specifically send a deletion instruction to the edge management and control device 103; the edge management and control device 103 receives a deleting instruction issued by the central management and control device, acquires the information of the mirror image to be deleted from the deleting instruction, and judges whether the mirror image to be deleted is stored in the third edge cloud node according to the information of the mirror image to be deleted; and if the images to be deleted are stored, deleting the images to be deleted in the third edge cloud node. Further, if the edge management and control device 103 is disposed in the third edge cloud node, the central management and control device 101 may specifically send the deletion instruction to the edge management and control device 103 in the third edge cloud node; the edge management and control equipment 103 in the third edge cloud node receives a deleting instruction issued by the central management and control equipment, acquires the information of the mirror image to be deleted from the deleting instruction, and judges whether the mirror image to be deleted is stored in the third edge cloud node according to the information of the mirror image to be deleted; and if the images to be deleted are stored, deleting the stored images to be deleted in the third edge cloud node.
The central management and control equipment deletes the mirror image to be deleted from the mirror image library, and the edge cloud node storing the mirror image to be deleted also deletes the mirror image to be deleted stored in the central management and control equipment, so that the mirror image deleting process is completed.
In any manner, for the resource devices in the edge cloud node, after the images are acquired, resources such as computing, network, storage and the like can be provided for the examples in a virtualized form through the capability supported by hardware or software under the control of the edge management and control device 103, and the corresponding images can be mounted to the corresponding examples in the form of a system disk. After the instance is created, the instance is started in an attempt, and after the corresponding instance is successfully started, the cloud computing service can be provided by utilizing the capabilities of the resource devices. The resource equipment provides resources such as calculation, network and storage for the instance under the control of the edge management and control equipment, and the method comprises the following steps: the edge management and control equipment applies for related computing resources, storage resources and/or network resources from the resources allocated or reserved in the target edge node according to the resource template provided by the central management and control equipment; and performing the creation action of the related resources by calling the actuators such as computation, storage, network and the like in the target edge cloud node. Wherein the creating action of the resource comprises: processing and storing related resources, creating a system disk of an instance according to configuration information of the mirror image and mirror image content, and creating a corresponding data disk according to a resource template; creating instance-dependent network resources, such as IP addresses, virtual switches, etc.; and creating the computing resource in conjunction with the resource template.
In combination with the implementation structures of the central management and control device and the edge management and control device shown in fig. 1b, the mirror image management and distribution function can be implemented by matching the mirror image management and control module and the mirror image service module, and detailed processes are not repeated.
In summary, in the network system provided by the embodiment of the application, the resource scheduling, mirror image management, operation and maintenance and the like of the edge cloud nodes are uniformly managed and controlled based on the centralized management and control mode, so that the edge cloud nodes can be managed and coordinated to the greatest extent, errors caused by single-point homemade or asynchronous whole network information can be reduced, and the optimization of the resource scheduling can be achieved by utilizing the characteristic of centralized management and control, so that the situation of local resource waste of the edge is avoided.
In addition to the above network system, the embodiments of the present application provide a management and control method from the perspective of an edge management and control device, which is described in detail below.
Fig. 2a is a schematic flow chart of a control method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present application. This embodiment is described from the perspective of an edge management device, as shown in fig. 2a, the method comprising:
21a, determining that central control equipment in the network system does not control or cannot control at least one edge cloud node in the network system.
22a, autonomously controlling at least one edge cloud node.
In an alternative embodiment, when the edge management and control device determines that the central management and control device does not or cannot manage the edge cloud node, at least one of the following manners may be adopted, but not limited to:
mode 1: judging whether the central control equipment is connected with the central control equipment or not, and determining that the central control equipment cannot control the edge cloud nodes under the condition that the central control equipment is disconnected with the central control equipment.
Mode 2: the central management and control equipment controls the edge management and control equipment to monitor at least one edge cloud node by sending a first type of monitoring instruction to the edge management and control equipment. Based on the above, the edge management and control device can determine whether a first type of monitoring instruction sent by the central management and control device is received, and determine that the central management and control device does not or cannot manage the edge cloud node under the condition that the first type of monitoring instruction sent by the central management and control device is not received. Optionally, the edge management and control device and the central management and control device may pre-agree on a waiting duration of the first type of monitoring instruction, and if the waiting duration is exceeded and the first type of monitoring instruction sent by the central management and control device is not received yet, it is determined that the first type of monitoring instruction sent by the central management and control device is not received yet.
Mode 3: the central management and control equipment controls the edge management and control equipment to monitor at least one edge cloud node from the appointed monitoring dimension by sending a second type of monitoring instruction corresponding to the appointed monitoring dimension to the edge management and control equipment. Based on the above, the edge management and control device can determine whether to receive the second type of monitoring instruction sent by the center management and control device in the designated monitoring dimension; and under the condition that a second type of monitoring instruction sent by the central management and control equipment is not received in the appointed monitoring dimension, determining that the central management and control equipment does not or cannot manage the edge cloud nodes in the appointed monitoring dimension.
Further, in mode 1, after the edge management and control device resumes the connection with the center management and control device, the edge management and control device may synchronize management and control data during the loss of connection to the center management and control device.
In either way, the edge management and control device can autonomously manage the edge cloud nodes under the condition that the central management and control device is determined to not manage or cannot manage the edge cloud nodes in the designated monitoring dimension. Optionally, the edge management and control device manages the edge cloud node, including but not limited to at least one of the following operations:
Performing state monitoring on an object in an operation state in at least one edge cloud node, and performing exception handling on a monitored object with an abnormal operation state;
monitoring the life cycle of an object in an operation state in at least one edge cloud node, and controlling the object in the operation state to stop, restart after stopping, migrate or delete according to a monitoring result;
collecting log data in at least one edge cloud node, carrying out data analysis on the log data, and executing subsequent actions according to the data analysis result;
monitoring the flow of at least one edge cloud node, and blocking the monitored flow attack event;
scanning network security vulnerabilities of at least one edge cloud node, and repairing scanned network security vulnerabilities;
and monitoring the resource consumption in the at least one edge cloud node, and carrying out resource capacity expansion or capacity reduction on the at least one edge cloud node according to the monitoring result.
Further optionally, when performing exception handling on the monitored target object with the abnormal running state, the abnormal running state of the target object may be analyzed, and at least one candidate handling mode is determined according to the analysis result; and acquiring a target processing mode from at least one candidate processing mode, and performing exception processing on the target object according to the target processing mode.
Optionally, obtaining the target processing mode from at least one candidate processing mode includes:
reporting at least one candidate processing mode to the central control equipment under the condition of keeping connection with the central control equipment so as to enable the central control equipment to select the processing mode; receiving a processing mode returned by the central control equipment as a target processing mode; or alternatively
Outputting at least one candidate processing mode to an edge management and control personnel under the condition that the connection with the central management and control equipment is lost, so that the management and control personnel can select the processing mode from the candidate processing mode; responding to the selection operation of the edge management personnel, and determining the selected processing mode as a target processing mode; or alternatively
And under the condition that the connection with the central control equipment is lost, selecting a target processing mode from at least one candidate processing mode according to a set selection strategy. The selection policy can be flexibly set according to the application scenario, which is not limited in the application. For example, the selection policy may be to select the simplest processing method, or to select the processing method that consumes the least resources, and so on. The performance or attribute of each processing method may be known in advance or may be determined in real time.
It should be noted that, when the edge management and control device is connected to the central management and control device, at least one candidate processing mode may be output to the edge management and control personnel, and the edge management and control personnel may select a target processing mode to be used from among them. The embodiment of the application is not limited to this, and for example, the application can output short messages, in-application messages, system messages, mails and/or other modes to terminal devices such as mobile phones, computers and the like used by edge management and control personnel.
Further, if edge management and control devices are disposed in each edge cloud node, each edge management and control device can autonomously manage and control the edge cloud node to which the center management and control device belongs under the condition that the center management and control device does not manage or cannot manage and control the edge cloud node to which the center management and control device belongs.
Optionally, the edge management and control device autonomously manages and controls the at least one edge cloud node, and may periodically manage and control the at least one edge cloud node according to a timing task. Of course, the edge management and control device may also autonomously manage at least one edge cloud node according to an autonomous policy in other manners, for example, may autonomously manage at least one edge cloud node at a fixed point in time every day.
Further, in addition to the edge management and control device autonomously managing and controlling the at least one edge cloud node, the edge management and control device may also assist the central management and control device in managing and controlling the at least one edge cloud node. As shown in fig. 2b, the process of the edge management and control device assisting the central management and control device to manage the edge cloud node includes:
21b, monitoring at least one edge cloud node in the network system;
22b, reporting the monitoring data to central control equipment in the network system, so that the central control equipment can control at least one edge cloud node according to the monitoring data.
Optionally, the edge management and control device may periodically monitor the at least one edge cloud node from the at least one monitoring dimension according to the timing task. Or, the edge management and control device may monitor at least one edge cloud node in the network system under the control of the central management and control device. With respect to the control manner of the central control device to the edge control device, the embodiments of the present application are not limited, and two alternative embodiments are described below.
In an alternative embodiment, the implementation of step 21b includes: and monitoring the at least one edge cloud node from the at least one monitoring dimension according to a first type of monitoring instruction sent by the central management and control equipment. Accordingly, the implementation procedure of step 22b includes: and reporting the monitoring data in the at least one monitoring dimension to the central control equipment so that the central control equipment can control the at least one edge cloud node according to the monitoring data in the at least one monitoring dimension.
In another alternative embodiment, the implementation of step 21b includes: and monitoring at least one edge cloud node in a designated monitoring dimension according to a second type of monitoring instruction sent by the central management and control equipment. Accordingly, the implementation procedure of step 22b includes: and reporting the monitoring data in the designated monitoring dimension to the central management and control equipment so that the central management and control equipment can manage and control at least one edge cloud node according to the monitoring data in the designated monitoring dimension.
Further optionally, the edge management and control device may assist the central management and control device in managing the edge cloud nodes from at least one monitoring dimension, as exemplified below.
In example 1, the implementation procedure of step 21b includes: and performing state monitoring on the objects in the running state in the at least one edge cloud node. Accordingly, the implementation procedure of step 22b includes: reporting the monitored running state of the running state object to the central control equipment so that the central control equipment can identify the target object with abnormal running state and perform abnormal processing on the target object.
In example 2, the implementation procedure of step 21b includes: the lifecycle of the object in the operational state in the at least one edge cloud node is monitored. Accordingly, the implementation procedure of step 22b includes: reporting the monitored life cycle of the object in the running state to the central control equipment so as to enable the central control equipment to control the stopping, restarting or deleting of the object in the running state after stopping;
In example 3, the implementation of step 21b includes: log data in at least one edge cloud node is collected. Accordingly, the implementation procedure of step 22b includes: reporting the log data to the central control equipment for the central control equipment to perform data analysis on the log data and execute subsequent actions according to a data analysis result;
in example 4, the implementation of step 21b includes: and monitoring the traffic of at least one edge cloud node. Accordingly, the implementation procedure of step 22b includes: reporting the monitored flow attack event to the central control equipment so as to enable the central control equipment to block the flow attack event;
in example 5, the implementation of step 21b includes: and performing network security vulnerability scanning on at least one edge cloud node. Accordingly, the implementation procedure of step 22b includes: reporting the scanned network security hole problem to central control equipment for the central control equipment to repair the network security hole problem;
in example 6, the implementation of step 21b includes: the resource usage in at least one edge cloud node is monitored. Accordingly, the implementation procedure of step 22b includes: and reporting the monitored resource consumption information to central control equipment so that the central control equipment can perform resource capacity expansion or capacity reduction on at least one edge cloud node.
In the embodiment of the method, the central management and control equipment is combined with the edge management and control equipment, the edge management and control equipment can assist the central management and control equipment to manage and control at least one edge cloud node, in addition, the edge management and control equipment also has certain self-management and control capability, the edge cloud node can be independently managed and controlled under the condition that the central management and control equipment does not or cannot manage and control the edge cloud node, two-stage management and control can be realized, the edge cloud node can be more fully and comprehensively managed and controlled, conditions are provided for 'processing cloud computing in the edge cloud node which is closer to a terminal', cloud computing service can be provided for a user by means of resources in the edge cloud node, response time delay is reduced, the pressure of a central cloud or a traditional cloud computing platform is reduced, and bandwidth cost is reduced.
It should be noted that, the "control" in the above method embodiment may be control of the operation dimension. For example, the central management and control device may perform operation and maintenance management and control on at least one edge cloud node with the assistance of the edge management and control device. In the operation and maintenance management and control scenario, the at least one monitoring dimension or the designated monitoring dimension may be an operation and maintenance dimension, and then the central management and control device may perform operation and maintenance management and control on at least one edge cloud node according to the monitoring data on the at least one operation and maintenance dimension or the designated operation and maintenance dimension reported by the edge management and control device. In addition, the edge management and control equipment can autonomously perform operation and maintenance management and control on at least one edge cloud node under the condition that the center management and control equipment does not perform operation and maintenance management and control on the edge cloud node or cannot perform operation and maintenance management and control on the edge cloud node. For example, the edge management and control device may perform operation and control on at least one edge cloud node according to the monitored at least one operation and maintenance dimension or the monitored data on the designated operation and maintenance dimension. The foregoing embodiments may be referred to for details of the central management and control device or the edge management and control device for performing operation and maintenance management on at least one edge cloud node, and will not be described herein.
It should be noted that, in some of the flows described in the above embodiments and the drawings, a plurality of operations appearing in a specific order are included, but it should be clearly understood that the operations may be performed out of the order in which they appear herein or performed in parallel, the sequence numbers of the operations such as 21a, 22a, etc. are merely used to distinguish between the various operations, and the sequence numbers themselves do not represent any execution order. In addition, the flows may include more or fewer operations, and the operations may be performed sequentially or in parallel. It should be noted that, the descriptions of "first" and "second" herein are used to distinguish different messages, devices, modules, etc., and do not represent a sequence, and are not limited to the "first" and the "second" being different types.
Fig. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of a central control device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present application. As shown in fig. 3, the central controlling apparatus includes: a memory 31, a processor 32 and a communication component 33.
The memory 31 is used for storing a computer program and may be configured to store other various data to support operations on the central management and control apparatus. Examples of such data include instructions, messages, pictures, videos, etc. for any application or method operating on the central management device.
A processor 32 coupled to the memory 31 for executing the computer program in the memory 31 for: and receiving monitoring data for at least one edge cloud node in the network system, which is reported by the edge management and control equipment, through the communication component 33, and managing and controlling the at least one edge cloud node according to the monitoring data.
In an alternative embodiment, processor 32 is specifically configured to: sending a first type of monitoring instruction to the edge management and control equipment through the communication component 33 so as to instruct the edge management and control equipment to monitor at least one edge cloud node from at least one monitoring dimension and report monitoring data in the at least one monitoring dimension to the central management and control equipment; and managing and controlling the at least one edge cloud node according to the monitoring data in the at least one monitoring dimension reported by the edge management and control equipment. The first type of monitoring instruction is a monitoring instruction for instructing the edge management and control device to monitor the at least one edge cloud node from the at least one monitoring dimension and report monitoring data on the at least one monitoring dimension. It is worth to say that the monitoring dimension can be flexibly set according to the application requirement and preset into the edge management and control equipment and the center management and control equipment.
Alternatively, the processor 32 is specifically configured to: the communication component 33 is used for sending a second type of monitoring instruction to the edge management and control equipment, wherein the second type of monitoring instruction corresponds to the appointed monitoring dimension and is used for indicating the edge management and control equipment to monitor at least one edge cloud node in the appointed monitoring dimension and reporting monitoring data in the appointed monitoring dimension; and managing and controlling at least one edge cloud node according to the monitoring data in the designated monitoring dimension.
It should be noted that the designated monitoring dimension may be one or more. In the case where there are a plurality of specified monitoring dimensions, each specified monitoring dimension may correspond to a second type of monitoring instruction.
The at least one monitoring dimension or designated monitoring dimension may include, but is not limited to, the following: object dimension in run state, log dimension, security dimension, resource dimension, etc. Further, the object dimensions in the run state may include a run state dimension of the object and/or a lifecycle dimension of the object; the security dimension may include: traffic attack dimension and/or security vulnerability dimension.
In connection with the several monitoring dimensions listed above, processor 32 is specifically configured to perform at least one of, but not limited to, the following:
Controlling edge management and control equipment to monitor the state of an object in an operation state in at least one edge cloud node; receiving the running state of an object in the running state reported by the edge management and control equipment; identifying an object with abnormal running state from the running state of the object in the running state reported by the edge management and control equipment, for convenience of description and distinction, calling the object with abnormal running state as a target object, and carrying out exception processing on the target object; or alternatively
Controlling the edge management and control equipment to monitor the life cycle of an object in an operation state in at least one edge cloud node; receiving the life cycle of the object in the running state reported by the edge management and control equipment; according to the life cycle of the object in the running state reported by the edge management and control equipment, controlling the object in the running state to stop, restart or delete after stopping; or alternatively
Controlling edge management and control equipment to collect log data in at least one edge cloud node; receiving log data reported by edge management and control equipment; the log data is subjected to data analysis, and follow-up actions are executed according to the data analysis result, such as charging, wind control, instance increase and/or decrease and the like; or alternatively
Controlling the edge management and control equipment to monitor the flow of at least one edge cloud node; receiving a flow attack event reported by edge control equipment; blocking the traffic attack event in the edge cloud node; or alternatively
Controlling the edge management and control equipment to scan network security vulnerabilities of at least one edge cloud node; receiving a network security vulnerability problem reported by edge management and control equipment; repairing the network security hole problem; or alternatively
Controlling edge management and control equipment to monitor the resource consumption in at least one edge cloud node; receiving resource consumption information reported by edge management and control equipment; and carrying out resource capacity expansion or capacity reduction on at least one edge cloud node according to the resource consumption information reported by the edge management and control equipment.
Optionally, the "control" in this embodiment may be control of the operation dimension, and then the processor 32 may specifically be configured to: and receiving monitoring data aiming at least one edge cloud node in the network system and reported by the edge management and control equipment, and performing operation and maintenance management and control on the at least one edge cloud node according to the monitoring data. Further, the processor 32 may also control the edge management and control device to monitor for at least one edge cloud node from at least one operational dimension or a designated operational dimension; and performing operation and maintenance control on at least one edge cloud node according to the at least one operation and maintenance dimension or the monitoring data on the appointed operation and maintenance dimension reported by the edge management and control equipment. The details of controlling the edge management and control device to monitor and manage the at least one edge cloud node from the at least one operation dimension or the designated operation dimension can be found in the foregoing description, and will not be described herein.
Further, as shown in fig. 3, the central control apparatus further includes: a display 34, a power supply assembly 35, and an audio assembly 36. Only a part of the components are schematically shown in fig. 3, which does not mean that the central controlling device only comprises the components shown in fig. 3. In addition, the components within the dashed box in fig. 3 are optional components, depending on the implementation of the central management and control apparatus. If the central controlling device is a server-like device, the display 34 and the audio component 36 may optionally be excluded; if the central control device is a terminal-type device, a display 34 and an audio component 36 may optionally be included.
Accordingly, embodiments of the present application also provide a computer-readable storage medium storing a computer program, which when executed by one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to implement the steps or operations described in the above embodiments of the method as being executable by a central management device.
Fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of an edge management and control device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present application. As shown in fig. 4, the apparatus includes: a memory 41 and a processor 42.
Memory 41 for storing a computer program and may be configured to store various other data to support operations on the edge management device. Examples of such data include instructions, messages, pictures, videos, etc. for any application or method operating on the edge management device.
A processor 42 coupled to the memory 41 for executing the computer program in the memory 41 for: determining that the central control equipment in the network system does not or cannot control at least one edge cloud node in the network system; at least one edge cloud node is autonomously managed.
In an alternative embodiment, processor 42 is specifically configured to perform at least one of the following operations when it is determined that the central controlling device is not controlling or cannot control the edge cloud node:
under the condition that the edge management and control equipment and the central management and control equipment lose connection, determining that the central management and control equipment cannot manage and control at least one edge cloud node; or alternatively
Under the condition that a first type of monitoring instruction sent by the central control equipment is not received, determining that the central control equipment does not control or cannot control at least one edge cloud node; or alternatively
And under the condition that a second type of monitoring instruction sent by the central management and control equipment is not received in the appointed monitoring dimension, determining that the central management and control equipment does not or cannot manage at least one edge cloud node in the appointed monitoring dimension.
Further, the processor 42 is configured to: and after the edge management and control equipment and the central management and control equipment are restored to be connected, synchronizing management and control data in the period of losing the connection to the central management and control equipment.
In an alternative embodiment, processor 42, when autonomously controlling at least one edge cloud node, is specifically configured to perform at least one of the following operations:
performing state monitoring on an object in an operation state in at least one edge cloud node, and performing exception handling on a monitored object with an abnormal operation state;
monitoring the life cycle of an object in an operation state in at least one edge cloud node, and controlling the object in the operation state to stop, restart or delete after stopping according to a monitoring result;
collecting log data in at least one edge cloud node, carrying out data analysis on the log data, and executing subsequent actions according to the data analysis result;
monitoring the flow of at least one edge cloud node, and blocking the monitored flow attack event;
scanning network security vulnerabilities of at least one edge cloud node, and repairing scanned network security vulnerabilities;
and monitoring the resource consumption in the at least one edge cloud node, and carrying out resource capacity expansion or capacity reduction on the at least one edge cloud node according to the monitoring result.
Further alternatively, the processor 42 is specifically configured to, when performing exception processing for the monitored target object with abnormal running state: analyzing the abnormal running state of the target object, and determining at least one candidate processing mode according to an analysis result; and acquiring a target processing mode from at least one candidate processing mode, and performing exception processing on the target object according to the target processing mode.
Optionally, as shown in fig. 4, the edge management and control apparatus of the present embodiment further includes: a communication component 43. The processor 42 is specifically configured to, when acquiring the target processing mode from the at least one candidate processing mode: reporting at least one candidate processing mode to the central control equipment under the condition that the edge control equipment is connected with the central control equipment, so that the central control equipment can select the processing mode; receiving a processing mode returned by the central control equipment through the communication component 43 as a target processing mode; or under the condition that the edge control equipment and the central control equipment lose connection, outputting at least one candidate processing mode to the edge control personnel so as to enable the control personnel to select the processing mode from the candidate processing modes; responding to the selection operation of the edge management personnel, and determining the selected processing mode as a target processing mode; or under the condition that the edge management and control equipment and the central management and control equipment lose connection, selecting a target processing mode from at least one candidate processing mode according to a set selection strategy.
In an alternative embodiment, processor 42 is also configured to: and monitoring at least one edge cloud node in the network system, and reporting the monitoring data to the central management and control equipment so that the central management and control equipment can manage and control the at least one edge cloud node according to the monitoring data.
Optionally, the processor 42 is further configured to: and monitoring at least one edge cloud node under the control of the central control equipment. For example, the processor 42 is specifically configured to: according to a first type of monitoring instruction sent by the central management and control equipment, monitoring at least one edge cloud node from at least one monitoring dimension, and reporting monitoring data in the at least one monitoring dimension to the central management and control equipment so that the central management and control equipment can manage and control the at least one edge cloud node according to the monitoring data in the at least one monitoring dimension; or, according to a second type of monitoring instruction sent by the central management and control equipment, monitoring at least one edge cloud node in a designated monitoring dimension, and reporting monitoring data in the designated monitoring dimension to the central management and control equipment so that the central management and control equipment can manage and control the at least one edge cloud node according to the monitoring data in the designated monitoring dimension.
Optionally, the processor 42 is further configured to monitor the at least one edge cloud node from the at least one monitoring dimension periodically according to the timing task, and report the monitoring data in the at least one monitoring dimension to the central control device, so that the central control device controls the at least one edge cloud node according to the monitoring data in the at least one monitoring dimension.
Further optionally, the processor 42 is specifically configured to perform at least one of the following operations when monitoring at least one edge cloud node and reporting the monitored data to the central management and control device:
the method comprises the steps of performing state monitoring on an object in an operation state in at least one edge cloud node, and reporting the monitored operation state of the object in the operation state to central control equipment so that the central control equipment can identify a target object with abnormal operation state and perform abnormal processing on the target object;
monitoring the life cycle of the object in the running state in at least one edge cloud node, and reporting the monitored life cycle of the object in the running state to the central control equipment so that the central control equipment can control the object in the running state to stop, restart or delete after stopping;
collecting log data in at least one edge cloud node, and reporting the log data to central control equipment for the central control equipment to perform data analysis on the log data and execute subsequent actions according to a data analysis result;
monitoring the flow of at least one edge cloud node, and reporting the monitored flow attack event to the central control equipment so as to enable the central control equipment to block the flow attack event;
Scanning network security vulnerabilities of at least one edge cloud node, and reporting the scanned network security vulnerabilities to central control equipment for the central control equipment to repair the network security vulnerabilities;
and monitoring the resource consumption in the at least one edge cloud node, and reporting the monitored resource consumption information to the central management and control equipment so that the central management and control equipment can perform resource capacity expansion or capacity reduction on the at least one edge cloud node.
Optionally, each edge cloud node has an edge management and control device disposed therein, and the processor 42 is specifically configured to: and autonomously managing and controlling the edge cloud nodes to which the edge management and control equipment belongs.
Alternatively, the "control" in this embodiment may be control of the operation dimension, and then the processor 42 may specifically be configured to: autonomously performing operation and maintenance management and control on at least one edge cloud node; or monitoring for at least one edge cloud node from at least one or a designated dimension of operation under control of a central management and control device. The foregoing description may be referred to for details of autonomously performing operation and maintenance control on at least one edge cloud node, or monitoring the at least one edge cloud node from at least one operation and maintenance dimension or a designated operation and maintenance dimension under the control of a central control device, and will not be repeated herein.
Further, as shown in fig. 4, the edge management and control apparatus further includes: a display 44, a power supply assembly 45, and an audio assembly 46, among other components. Only some of the components are schematically shown in fig. 4, which does not mean that the edge management device only comprises the components shown in fig. 4. In addition, the components within the dashed box in fig. 4 are optional components, depending on the implementation of the edge management device. If the edge management device is a server-style device, the display 44 and audio component 46 may optionally be excluded; if the edge management device is a terminal device-style device, a display 44 and an audio component 46 may optionally be included.
Accordingly, embodiments of the present application also provide a computer-readable storage medium storing a computer program, which when executed by one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to implement the steps or operations described in the above embodiments of the method as being executable by an edge management device.
The memory in fig. 3 and 4 described above may be implemented by any type or combination of volatile or non-volatile memory devices, such as Static Random Access Memory (SRAM), electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM), erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM), programmable read-only memory (PROM), read-only memory (ROM), magnetic memory, flash memory, magnetic or optical disk.
The communication assembly of fig. 3 and 4 described above is configured to facilitate wired or wireless communication between the device in which the communication assembly is located and other devices. The device in which the communication component is located may access a wireless network based on a communication standard, such as WiFi,2G or 3G, or a combination thereof. In one exemplary embodiment, the communication component receives a broadcast signal or broadcast-related information from an external broadcast management system via a broadcast channel. In one exemplary embodiment, the communication component may further include a Near Field Communication (NFC) module, radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology, infrared data association (IrDA) technology, ultra Wideband (UWB) technology, bluetooth (BT) technology, and the like.
The displays in fig. 3 and 4 described above include screens, which may include a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) and a Touch Panel (TP). If the screen includes a touch panel, the screen may be implemented as a touch screen to receive input signals from a user. The touch panel includes one or more touch sensors to sense touches, swipes, and gestures on the touch panel. The touch sensor may sense not only the boundary of a touch or sliding action, but also the duration and pressure associated with the touch or sliding operation.
The power supply assembly of fig. 3 and 4 provides power to the various components of the device in which the power supply assembly is located. The power components may include a power management system, one or more power sources, and other components associated with generating, managing, and distributing power for the devices in which the power components are located.
The audio components of fig. 3 and 4 described above may be configured to output and/or input audio signals. For example, the audio component includes a Microphone (MIC) configured to receive external audio signals when the device in which the audio component is located is in an operational mode, such as a call mode, a recording mode, and a speech recognition mode. The received audio signal may be further stored in a memory or transmitted via a communication component. In some embodiments, the audio assembly further comprises a speaker for outputting audio signals.
It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that embodiments of the present invention may be provided as a method, system, or computer program product. Accordingly, the present invention may take the form of an entirely hardware embodiment, an entirely software embodiment or an embodiment combining software and hardware aspects. Furthermore, the present invention may take the form of a computer program product embodied on one or more computer-usable storage media (including, but not limited to, disk storage, CD-ROM, optical storage, and the like) having computer-usable program code embodied therein.
The present invention is described with reference to flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams of methods, apparatus (systems) and computer program products according to embodiments of the invention. It will be understood that each flow and/or block of the flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams, and combinations of flows and/or blocks in the flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams, can be implemented by computer program instructions. These computer program instructions may be provided to a processor of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, embedded processor, or other programmable data processing apparatus to produce a machine, such that the instructions, which execute via the processor of the computer or other programmable data processing apparatus, create means for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.
These computer program instructions may also be stored in a computer-readable memory that can direct a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus to function in a particular manner, such that the instructions stored in the computer-readable memory produce an article of manufacture including instruction means which implement the function specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.
These computer program instructions may also be loaded onto a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus to cause a series of operational steps to be performed on the computer or other programmable apparatus to produce a computer implemented process such that the instructions which execute on the computer or other programmable apparatus provide steps for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.
In one typical configuration, a computing device includes one or more processors (CPUs), input/output interfaces, network interfaces, and memory. The memory may include volatile memory in a computer-readable medium, random Access Memory (RAM) and/or nonvolatile memory, such as Read Only Memory (ROM) or flash memory (flash RAM). Memory is an example of computer-readable media.
Computer readable media, including both non-transitory and non-transitory, removable and non-removable media, may implement information storage by any method or technology. The information may be computer readable instructions, data structures, modules of a program, or other data. Examples of storage media for a computer include, but are not limited to, phase change memory (PRAM), static Random Access Memory (SRAM), dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), other types of Random Access Memory (RAM), read Only Memory (ROM), electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory (EEPROM), flash memory or other memory technology, compact disc read only memory (CD-ROM), digital Versatile Discs (DVD) or other optical storage, magnetic cassettes, magnetic tape magnetic disk storage or other magnetic storage devices, or any other non-transmission medium, which can be used to store information that can be accessed by a computing device. Computer-readable media, as defined herein, does not include transitory computer-readable media (transmission media), such as modulated data signals and carrier waves.
It should also be noted that the terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. Without further limitation, an element defined by the phrase "comprising one … …" does not exclude the presence of other like elements in a process, method, article or apparatus that comprises the element.
The foregoing is merely exemplary of the present application and is not intended to limit the present application. Various modifications and changes may be made to the present application by those skilled in the art. Any modifications, equivalent substitutions, improvements, etc. which are within the spirit and principles of the present application are intended to be included within the scope of the claims of the present application.

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1. A network system, wherein the network system is an edge cloud network system built on an edge infrastructure based on cloud computing technology and edge computing capabilities, comprising: the system comprises a central management and control device, edge management and control devices and at least one edge cloud node, wherein at least an instance for providing cloud computing services is operated on edge infrastructure in the at least one edge cloud node, and the instance is created according to an image file;
The central control equipment is used for receiving the monitoring data aiming at the at least one edge cloud node and reported by the edge control equipment, and controlling the at least one edge cloud node according to the monitoring data;
the edge management and control equipment is used for monitoring the at least one edge cloud node and reporting monitoring data to the central management and control equipment; and autonomously controlling the at least one edge cloud node if the central controlling device does not or cannot control the at least one edge cloud node, the controlling comprising: and monitoring the objects and/or data in the at least one edge cloud node, and correspondingly processing the objects and/or data in the at least one edge cloud node according to the monitoring data, wherein the objects at least comprise the examples.
2. The network system of claim 1, wherein the edge management and control device is specifically configured to:
autonomously managing the at least one edge cloud node from at least one monitoring dimension in case of a loss of connection with the central managing device;
or alternatively
Under the condition that a first type of monitoring instruction sent by the central control equipment is not received, autonomously controlling at least one edge cloud node from at least one monitoring dimension;
Or alternatively
And if the second type of monitoring instruction sent by the central control equipment is not received in the appointed monitoring dimension, autonomously controlling the at least one edge cloud node from the appointed monitoring dimension.
3. The network system of claim 2, wherein the edge management device is further configured to:
and after the connection is restored with the central control equipment, synchronizing the control data during the period of losing the connection to the central control equipment.
4. A network system according to any of claims 1-3, wherein the edge management and control device is configured to perform at least one of the following operations when autonomously managing the at least one edge cloud node:
performing state monitoring on the object in the running state in the at least one edge cloud node, and performing exception handling on the monitored object with the abnormal running state;
monitoring the life cycle of an object in an operation state in the at least one edge cloud node, and controlling the object in the operation state to stop, restart after stopping, migrate or delete according to a monitoring result;
collecting log data in the at least one edge cloud node, carrying out data analysis on the log data, and executing subsequent actions according to a data analysis result;
Monitoring the traffic of the at least one edge cloud node, and blocking the monitored traffic attack event;
scanning network security vulnerabilities of the at least one edge cloud node, and repairing scanned network security vulnerabilities;
and monitoring the resource consumption in the at least one edge cloud node, and carrying out resource capacity expansion or capacity reduction on the at least one edge cloud node according to a monitoring result.
5. The network system according to claim 4, wherein the edge management and control device is specifically configured to, when performing exception handling for a target object:
analyzing the abnormal running state of the target object, and determining at least one candidate processing mode according to an analysis result;
and acquiring a target processing mode from the at least one candidate processing mode, and performing exception processing on the target object according to the target processing mode.
6. The network system according to claim 5, wherein the edge management and control device is specifically configured to, when acquiring the target processing mode:
reporting the at least one candidate processing mode to the central control equipment under the condition that the central control equipment is kept connected with the central control equipment, so that the central control equipment can select the processing mode from the candidate processing modes; receiving a processing mode returned by the central control equipment as the target processing mode; or alternatively
Outputting the at least one candidate processing mode to an edge management and control personnel under the condition that the connection with the central management and control equipment is lost, so that the management and control personnel can select the processing mode from the candidate processing mode; responding to the selection operation of the edge management personnel, and determining the selected processing mode as the target processing mode; or alternatively
And under the condition that the connection with the central control equipment is lost, selecting the target processing mode from the at least one candidate processing mode according to a set selection strategy.
7. A network system according to any of claims 1-3, wherein the edge management and control device is configured to, when monitoring the at least one edge cloud node and reporting monitoring data to the central management and control device, specifically perform at least one of the following operations:
the method comprises the steps of performing state monitoring on an object in an operation state in at least one edge cloud node, and reporting the monitored operation state of the object in the operation state to central control equipment so that the central control equipment can identify a target object with abnormal operation state and perform abnormal processing on the target object;
monitoring the life cycle of the object in the running state in the at least one edge cloud node, and reporting the monitored life cycle of the object in the running state to the central control equipment so that the central control equipment can control the object in the running state to stop, restart or delete after stopping;
Collecting log data in the at least one edge cloud node, and reporting the log data to the central control equipment so that the central control equipment can perform data analysis on the log data and execute follow-up actions according to a data analysis result;
the at least one edge cloud node is subjected to flow monitoring, and monitored flow attack events are reported to the central control equipment so that the central control equipment can block the flow attack events;
scanning network security vulnerabilities of the at least one edge cloud node, and reporting the scanned network security vulnerabilities to the central control equipment so that the central control equipment can repair the security vulnerabilities;
and monitoring the resource consumption in the at least one edge cloud node, and reporting the monitored resource consumption information to the central control equipment so that the central control equipment can perform resource capacity expansion or capacity reduction on the at least one edge cloud node.
8. A network system according to any one of claims 1-3, wherein an edge management and control device is deployed in each edge cloud node;
The edge management and control device in each edge cloud node is specifically configured to: monitoring the edge cloud node to which the edge cloud node belongs and reporting monitoring data to the central control equipment; and under the condition that the central control equipment does not control or can not control the edge cloud node to which the central control equipment belongs, the central control equipment autonomously controls the edge cloud node to which the central control equipment belongs.
9. A method of managing, comprising:
determining that central management and control equipment in a network system does not manage or cannot manage at least one edge cloud node in the network system, wherein the network system is an edge cloud network system constructed on an edge infrastructure based on cloud computing technology and edge computing capability, and at least an instance for providing cloud computing service is operated on the edge infrastructure in the at least one edge cloud node, and the instance is created according to an image file;
and autonomously managing the at least one edge cloud node, wherein the managing comprises monitoring the objects and/or data in the at least one edge cloud node, and correspondingly processing the objects and/or data in the at least one edge cloud node according to the monitoring data, wherein the objects at least comprise the examples.
10. The method of claim 9, wherein determining that a central management device in a network system is not or cannot manage at least one edge cloud node in the network system comprises at least one of:
under the condition that the central control equipment loses connection with the central control equipment, determining that the central control equipment cannot control the at least one edge cloud node;
under the condition that a first type of monitoring instruction sent by the central control equipment is not received, determining that the central control equipment does not control or cannot control the at least one edge cloud node;
and under the condition that a second type of monitoring instruction sent by the central control equipment is not received in the appointed monitoring dimension, determining that the central control equipment does not control or cannot control the at least one edge cloud node in the appointed monitoring dimension.
11. The method as recited in claim 10, further comprising:
and after the connection is restored with the central control equipment, synchronizing the control data during the period of losing the connection to the central control equipment.
12. The method according to any of claims 9-11, wherein autonomously managing the at least one edge cloud node comprises at least one of:
Performing state monitoring on the object in the running state in the at least one edge cloud node, and performing exception handling on the monitored object with the abnormal running state;
monitoring the life cycle of an object in an operation state in the at least one edge cloud node, and controlling the object in the operation state to stop, restart after stopping, migrate or delete according to a monitoring result;
collecting log data in the at least one edge cloud node, carrying out data analysis on the log data, and executing subsequent actions according to a data analysis result;
monitoring the traffic of the at least one edge cloud node, and blocking the monitored traffic attack event;
scanning network security vulnerabilities of the at least one edge cloud node, and repairing scanned network security vulnerabilities;
and monitoring the resource consumption in the at least one edge cloud node, and carrying out resource capacity expansion or capacity reduction on the at least one edge cloud node according to a monitoring result.
13. The method of claim 12, wherein exception handling for the monitored target object of the operational state exception comprises:
Analyzing the abnormal running state of the target object, and determining at least one candidate processing mode according to an analysis result;
and acquiring a target processing mode from the at least one candidate processing mode, and performing exception processing on the target object according to the target processing mode.
14. The method of claim 13, wherein obtaining a target treatment modality from the at least one candidate treatment modality, comprises:
reporting the at least one candidate processing mode to the central control equipment under the condition that the central control equipment is kept connected with the central control equipment, so that the central control equipment can select the processing mode from the candidate processing modes; receiving a processing mode returned by the central control equipment as the target processing mode; or alternatively
Outputting the at least one candidate processing mode to an edge management and control personnel under the condition that the connection with the central management and control equipment is lost, so that the management and control personnel can select the processing mode from the candidate processing mode; responding to the selection operation of the edge management personnel, and determining the selected processing mode as the target processing mode; or alternatively
And under the condition that the connection with the central control equipment is lost, selecting the target processing mode from the at least one candidate processing mode according to a set selection strategy.
15. The method according to any one of claims 9-11, wherein each edge cloud node is provided with an edge management device, and wherein autonomously managing the at least one edge cloud node comprises:
the edge management and control equipment in each edge cloud node autonomously manages and controls the edge cloud node to which the edge cloud node belongs.
16. A method of managing, comprising:
monitoring at least one edge cloud node in a network system under the condition that central control equipment in the network system controls the at least one edge cloud node in the network system, wherein the network system is an edge cloud network system constructed on an edge infrastructure based on cloud computing technology and edge computing capability, and at least an instance for providing cloud computing service is operated on the edge infrastructure in the at least one edge cloud node, and is created according to an image file;
reporting the monitoring data to the central control equipment so that the central control equipment controls the at least one edge cloud node according to the monitoring data;
autonomously controlling the at least one edge cloud node if the central control device does not or cannot control the at least one edge cloud node; the managing includes monitoring objects and/or data in the at least one edge cloud node, the objects including at least the instance.
17. The method of claim 16, wherein monitoring at least one edge cloud node in the network system comprises:
monitoring the at least one edge cloud node from at least one monitoring dimension according to a first type of monitoring instruction sent by the central control equipment;
or alternatively
Monitoring the at least one edge cloud node in a designated monitoring dimension according to a second type of monitoring instruction sent by the central control equipment; or alternatively
The at least one edge cloud node is periodically monitored from at least one monitoring dimension according to a timing task.
18. The method according to claim 16, wherein monitoring at least one edge cloud node in a network system and reporting monitoring data to a central management and control device in the network system, for the central management and control device to manage the at least one edge cloud node according to the monitoring data, comprises at least one of:
the method comprises the steps of performing state monitoring on an object in an operation state in at least one edge cloud node, and reporting the monitored operation state of the object in the operation state to central control equipment so that the central control equipment can identify a target object with abnormal operation state and perform abnormal processing on the target object;
Monitoring the life cycle of the object in the running state in the at least one edge cloud node, and reporting the monitored life cycle of the object in the running state to the central control equipment so that the central control equipment can control the restarting, migration or deletion of the object in the running state after stopping and stopping;
collecting log data in the at least one edge cloud node, and reporting the log data to the central control equipment so that the central control equipment can perform data analysis on the log data and execute follow-up actions according to a data analysis result;
the at least one edge cloud node is subjected to flow monitoring, and monitored flow attack events are reported to the central control equipment so that the central control equipment can block the flow attack events;
scanning network security vulnerabilities of the at least one edge cloud node, and reporting the scanned network security vulnerabilities to the central control equipment so that the central control equipment can repair the network security vulnerabilities;
and monitoring the resource consumption in the at least one edge cloud node, and reporting the monitored resource consumption information to the central control equipment so that the central control equipment can perform resource capacity expansion or capacity reduction on the at least one edge cloud node.
19. The method according to any one of claims 16-18, wherein each edge cloud node is configured with an edge management and control device, and monitoring at least one edge cloud node in a network system and reporting monitoring data to a central management and control device in the network system comprises:
the edge management and control equipment in each edge cloud node monitors the edge cloud node to which the edge cloud node belongs and reports monitoring data in the edge cloud node to the central management and control equipment.
20. An edge management and control apparatus, comprising: a memory and a processor;
the memory is used for storing a computer program; the computer program, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to carry out the steps of the method of any one of claims 9-19.
21. A computer readable storage medium storing a computer program, characterized in that the computer program, when executed by one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to implement the steps in the method of any one of claims 9-19.
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