A Taxonomy for Workload Deployment Orchestration in the Edge-Cloud Continuum

As compute resources continue to proliferate from static large-scale enterprise-grade cloud environments to various types of more dynamic and resource-constrained edge environments, the need increases to orchestrate the deployment of workloads of data and processing applications across the emerging edge-cloud continuum. For many use cases in various application domains and contexts, similar workload deployment orchestration challenges arise. We present a taxonomy for workload deployment orchestration in the edge-cloud continuum that captures the various views and perspectives on workload deployment orchestration. We evaluate and valorise the proposed taxonomy by means of three illustrative and representative types of use cases from different domains and present opportunities for future research.