US Patent 12081393 Virtual smart network interface card for edge device

Techniques are described for implementing a virtual smart network interface card to facilitate data transmission in an edge device providing cloud-computing operations. An edge device can implement a private virtual network that includes a private virtual network data plane. The edge device can execute a virtual machine to be connected to the private virtual network. To establish the connection, the edge device can generate a virtual network interface that includes a first endpoint and a second endpoint and is hosted within the private virtual network data plane. The edge device can associate the first endpoint with the virtual machine and associate the second endpoint with an orchestration module of the private virtual network data plane. The virtual machine can then send a data packet to the orchestration module via the virtual network interface.