Virtual smart network interface card for edge device

A cloud-computing edge device cluster, comprising:

• a plurality of cloud-computing edge devices each having one or more processors and one or more memories storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed with the one or more processors, cause the cloud-computing edge device cluster to:
• receive, at a private virtual network data plane hosted within an execution environment of a cloud-computing edge device of the plurality of cloud-computing edge devices, a request to create a virtual network interface, the request comprising a networking command;
• send, by the private virtual network data plane to a command proxy module, the networking command;
• and
• generate, by the command proxy module using the networking command, the virtual network interface, the virtual network interface generated within a first networking namespace of a host operating system executing on the cloud-computing edge device.

A computer-readable storage medium comprising executable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a plurality of cloud-computing edge devices in a cloud-computing edge device cluster, cause the cloud-computing edge device cluster to:

• receive, at a private virtual network data plane hosted within an execution environment of a cloud-computing edge device of the plurality of cloud-computing edge devices, a request to create a virtual network interface, the request comprising a networking command;
• send, by the private virtual network data plane to a command proxy module, the networking command;
• and
• generate, by the command proxy module using the networking command, the virtual network interface, the virtual network interface generated within a first networking namespace of a host operating system executing on the cloud-computing edge device.