Session 2.4e Tutorial: Cloud Native at the Edge: Contesting Grey-Zone Degraded, Denied, Intermittent and/or Limited-bandwidth (DDIL) Environments
Tracks
| Wednesday, November 13, 2024 |
| 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM |
| Sutherland Theatre |
Details
In military operations, ensuring continuous and reliable application functionality in Degraded, Denied, Intermittent, and Limited-bandwidth (DDIL) environments is essential. This tutorial explores cloud-native at the edge as an enabler to capability in DDIL scenarios.
Cloud-native principles, when applied to edge computing, offer flexibility, scalability, and resilience, making them well-suited for DDIL conditions. This presentation will delve into edge container orchestration, opportunistic data synchronisation, and remote and in-the-field reconfigurability as means to maintaining operational efficiency despite challenging connectivity conditions.
The tutorial will be conducted using Oracle Cloud and Roving Edge Infrastructure to demonstrate the benefits of upstream compatible Kubernetes engines for integrating with open architecture edge devices. The tutorial and demonstration documentation, including code, will be available to participants through a GIT repository developed by DEWC Services and Elysium EPL to demonstrate a range of DDIL strategies made possible at the edge using a cloud-native approach. These strategies will be complemented by a range of use-cases demonstrating how they can be applied in real-world scenarios.
DEWC Services and Elysium EPL, utilising Oracle technologies, will co-present the tutorial with aim of starting the discussion as to future directions and emerging trends in edge cloud computing in DDIL environments, unlocking a new realm of distributed computing possibilities to support Defence’s evolving grey zone requirements.
Speaker
Dr Aaron Matthews
Program Manager Capability & Intelligence
DEWC Services
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Biography
Troy Boswell is the Chief Information Officer of DEWC Services Pty Ltd and brings over 20 years’ experience in combat systems, weapons systems, enterprise ICT, software engineering, and cloud/platform engineering for Defence and the Defence Industry. Having served 14 years in the Royal Australian Navy he has a multi-faceted appreciation of the Defence Enterprise and the limitations of the extant CIS landscape. He is passionate about leveraging asymmetric effects to address these limitations to enhance the effectiveness of the Defence Enterprise.
Anthony Allen is a director of Elysium EPL with more than 25 years’ experience in complex program management, research and analytics, intelligence, cyber and information operations planning, along with systems and governance design for Defence, government, and private sector.
This has included strategic planning and advice to senior government officials along with field experience gained during numerous deployments in the Middle East and the Indo-Pacific focused on intelligence analysis, planning, information operations and non-kinetic effects.
Anthony’s extensive research in the theory and practical application of information warfare capabilities has led him to working directly on multiple government initiatives designed to boost information warfare capabilities and increase decision superiority in complex and contested environments.
