Edge Node Infrastructure Blueprint — Release v2026.1.0

Overview

A comprehensive edge computing platform for Intel-based systems that delivers hardware-accelerated, cloud-native deployments on edge nodes. This release builds host OS images, packages bootable USB artifacts, and orchestrates containerized or Kubernetes workloads with GPU, NPU, and SR-IOV acceleration out of the box.

Platform Support

• Target OS: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Desktop with Platform BKC (kernel 6.18-intel)
• Hardware: Intel Panther Lake — Xe GPU (SR-IOV VFs), NPU (AI Boost), SoundWire audio, IPU camera HAL
• Provisioning OS: Alpine-based micro-OS for edge node bring-up
• Developer Workflow: Full build and USB preparation from native Ubuntu (22.04 & 24.04) and Windows WSL2 (Ubuntu 22.04 & 24.04)

Highlights

• Single-command bootable build — make build MODE=image-from-iso produces a complete usb-installation-files.tar.gz from an Ubuntu 24.04 ISO in one step.
• Advanced image customization — Image Composer Tool (ICT) enables declarative YAML templates for package curation, custom repositories, and disk layout control.
• Dual orchestration modes — cloud-init dispatches to K3s (Kubernetes) or Docker CE at first boot via a single host_type flag.
• Hardware acceleration ready — CDI generators for GPU/NPU and Intel device plugins (NFD, GPU, NPU) with SR-IOV passthrough.
• Pre-integrated AI/media stack — OpenVINO 2025.x, oneVPL, oneDNN, Level Zero, GStreamer, DL Streamer, and Intel RealSense SDK installed and validated.
• Agentic AI Skills — create-image, create-usb-installation-files, update-install-packages, validate-platform-config, tune-platform-power

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1.0.0

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