FOMA: A Framework for Orchestration, Monitoring and Automation of Fog Environments

• Sayonara S. Araújo UFC http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9493-5090
• Atslands R. da Rocha UFC https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3069-132X
• Flávio R. C. Souza UFC
• Nídia G. S. Campos Instituto Federal do Ceará – IFCE https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7294-8875

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbcup.2021.16009

Abstract

Fog Computing brings computational power at the edge of the network to the Internet of Things solutions, providing processing and storage services. Implementing Fog environments at a large scale has the challenge of managing their nodes and services, together with the resource limitations of local machines. In this context, we present FOMA, a framework that aims to facilitate the management of Fog environments. The framework brings container orchestration functionalities, machine monitoring, and automation of tasks. The implementation of FOMA focused on easy deployment, open-source tools, and low consumption of physical resources. For this purpose, we use the tools K3s, kubectl, Telegraf, InfluxDB, Grafana, and Ansible. The performance evaluation results show that FOMA is a viable and interesting solution for environments with Fog nodes with a low capacity of physical resources.

Keywords: Fog Computing, Internet of Things, Container Orchestration, Automation, Monitoring

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