Installing an Edge Agent on an Edge Node

Now that you have a good idea why Edge computing is needed, what it takes to design and build such a scalable Edge platform, the technologies involved, and what an enterprise-class solution must consider from a workload life cycle management point of view, it is about time we get into the nuts and bolts of putting a practical system together.

For an application workload to be placed on an Edge node, an Edge Agent needs to be installed on the Edge node. Once the Edge Agent has been successfully installed, it works with the Management Hub to manage the complete life cycle of containerized application workload deployment and run the application on the Edge node. As described earlier, Edge nodes are broadly categorized into two types: Edge devices and Edge clusters. The process of installing the Edge Agent on both types of Edge nodes is similar.

In this chapter, we are going to cover the following main topics:

• What is a Management...