Resource Allocation and Provisioning in a Multi-Tier Edge-Cloud Virtualization Environment

A computer program product, comprising a tangible machine-readable storage medium having encoded therein executable code of one or more software programs, wherein the one or more software programs when executed by at least one processing device perform the following steps:

• obtaining at least one application request in a multi-tier environment comprising one or more cloud resources and a plurality of edge nodes, wherein the plurality of edge nodes host a plurality of virtual nodes to process the one or more application requests, wherein each of the plurality of virtual nodes corresponds to a given one of a plurality of predefined virtual node types;
• providing data from a given data source to at least two of the plurality of virtual nodes based on a data type of the given data source and the virtual node type of the at least two virtual nodes;
• and
• providing a given application request to at least one of the plurality of virtual nodes based on a data type of the given application request and the virtual node type of the at least one virtual node, wherein the at least one virtual node provides data in response to the one or more application requests to one or more of:
• corresponding applications and one or more additional virtual nodes.

An apparatus, comprising:

• a memory;
• and
• at least one processing device, coupled to the memory, operative to implement the following steps:
• obtaining at least one application request in a multi-tier environment comprising one or more cloud resources and a plurality of edge nodes, wherein the plurality of edge nodes host a plurality of virtual nodes to process the one or more application requests, wherein each of the plurality of virtual nodes corresponds to a given one of a plurality of predefined virtual node types;
• providing data from a given data source to at least two of the plurality of virtual nodes based on a data type of the given data source and the virtual node type of the at least two virtual nodes;
• and
• providing a given application request to at least one of the plurality of virtual nodes based on a data type of the given application request and the virtual node type of the at least one virtual node, wherein the at least one virtual node provides data in response to the one or more application requests to one or more of:
• corresponding applications and one or more additional virtual nodes.