Overview

In this second part of the Quick Start Guide, we’ll focus on deploying an Edge Cluster.

OpenNebula provides the tools to dynamically grow your cloud infrastructure with Edge (lightweight) or HCI (based on Ceph) Clusters built with virtual and physical resources running on remote cloud providers based on the KVM or LXC hypervisors. You can grow your private cloud with resources at cloud and edge data center locations and enable true hybrid and multi-cloud environments to meet latency, bandwidth, or data regulation needs of your workload.

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In this section of the Quick Start we use Edge Clusters to easily build a cloud infrastructure and try the main operation and user features of OpenNebula.

Edge Clusters can be virtual or metal depending of the instance type used to build the cluster. Note that not all providers offer both instance types.

Important

Providers based on virtual instances have been disabled by default.

Edge/Cloud Provider

Edge Cluster

Hypervisor

Equinix

metal

KVM and LXC

AWS

metal

KVM and LXC

On-prem

metal

KVM and LXC

The Edge Cluster type determines the hypervisor and workload that can be run in the cluster. The following table summarizes the Edge Cluster you need to run specific workloads:

Use Case

Edge Cluster

Hypervisor

I want to run virtual servers…

metal

KVM, LXC

I want to run a Kubernetes cluster…

metal

KVM