Hi,
I recently read a number of articles about how to offload workloads onto containers that run on vehicles. TheChief IO article here [0] summarizes some of the things tried out there and these are the experiments I've read in detail:
- Mercedes-Benz did a POC [1] where they run containers in a vehicle to run relevant tasks. The focus here is on the development and CI/CD of these software.
- Denso had a similar POC [2] [3]. They ran an entire Kubernetes cluster in the vehicle. Again, the focus here is the development ease and CI/CD. Development teams simply develop and distribute software just like a web application. There's also mentions of used concepts like digital twins, request queuing (in the vehicle when offline) and few other interesting concepts.
How do these efforts align or relate with the automotive initiative? What I understand from CentOS automotive SIG and the POCs I mentioned above is that there are a lot of overlapping areas (being independent of the underlying hardware, faster software distribution, etc.) done in different levels (OS/Kube).
Context: I am a Knative (https://knative.dev) contributor at Red Hat. I was thinking about experimenting with Knative Eventing on the far edge, or even better, mentor a Google Summer of Code contributor this summer for that, and later I found out about the experiments done with Kubernetes on vehicles.
[0] https://thechief.io/c/editorial/how-kubernetes-is-shaping-the-future-of-cars... [1] https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/784791-mercedes-benz-r-and-d-cre... [2] https://kubernetes.io/case-studies/denso/ [3] https://www.denso.com/jp/ja/-/media/global/business/innovation/review/25/pap...