| CPC H04L 41/12 (2013.01) [H04L 41/084 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |

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1. An apparatus comprising:
a processing platform comprising at least one processor coupled to at least one memory, the processing platform configured to:
obtain a plain text input specifying a set of devices for an edge computing network to be deployed;
obtain a set of profiles, based on the plain text input, for use in configuring the set of devices wherein, for a given device, a given profile comprises one or more configuration attribute values corresponding to one or more components of the given device;
divide each of at least a portion of the profiles of the set of profiles into two or more sub-profiles to form a set of sub-profiles wherein, for a given divided profile of a given device, two or more sub-profiles respectively correspond to two or more components of the given device;
store the set of sub-profiles for use in configuring one or more other devices in the set of devices;
construct a topology diagram corresponding to the set of devices configured based on the set of sub-profiles; and
cause deployment of the edge computing network based on the topology diagram.
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