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Authors:
Nektarios Deligiannakis
Amr Mousa
Vassilis Papataxiarhis
Michalis Loukeris
Stathes Hadjiefthymiades
Keywords: Platform-Agnostic Modeling; Kubernetes; Cloud-Edge Continuum; Orchestration; Schema Validation; Application Pro- files; Distributed Systems
Abstract:
Orchestration across cloud, edge, and device environments requires consistent and machine-readable representations for both resources and applications. This paper presents a platform-agnostic, schema-validated profiling approach that prioritizes deterministic validation and operational compatibility in control-plane critical paths. The core profile contract is platform-independent, while the current implementation uses Kubernetes primitives where native resource metadata is mapped through labels, annotations, and taints, and externally managed devices are represented through a texttt{DeviceNode} Custom Resource synchronized by controller workflows. For applications, we define versioned profiles for native, device, and integration workloads using JSON Schema Draft-07. We operationalize these models through an Application Profile Manager (APM) that provides profile authoring support, schema validation, repository-backed lifecycle management, and OpenAPI-described programmatic access with ETag-based optimistic concurrency control. Evaluation is functional and correctness-oriented: it validates native/device life-cycle synchronization, schema-enforced profile rejection, repository consistency under concurrent updates, and an end-to-end placement workflow in the Kubernetes-based realization. The result is a practical modeling and governance foundation for continuum orchestration that can be extended to other orchestration substrates through adapter mappings.
Pages: 3 to 8
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2026
Publication date: April 19, 2026
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-4294
ISBN: 978-1-68558-373-6
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Dates: from April 19, 2026 to April 23, 2026