Introduction to Open Horizon and IEAM
Open Horizon is a community-based open source project at the Linux Foundation within their LF Edge1 umbrella organization. To quote the project’s introduction page, Open Horizon “...enables autonomous management of applications deployed to distributed webscale fleets of Edge computing nodes and devices without requiring on-premises administrators.” Note the focus on webscale fleets. It is designed to scale with your business.
At the time of writing, Open Horizon is in Stage 2 of maturity. This means it has a growing community of contributors, has an established project leadership structure, well-defined governance, and has active collaboration with other LF Edge projects. In particular, Open Horizon incorporates the FIDO Device Onboard (FDO)2 project to enable zero-touch provisioning of the Open Horizon Agent for Edge devices – reducing the complexity of securely provisioning your...
