What this book covers
Chapter 1, Fundamentals of Edge Computing, lays out the context and establishes the assumptions we make about its utility in commercial settings.
Chapter 2, Practicalities of Edge Computing, delves deeper into the architecture of Edge computing by focusing on the practical issues that have the potential to derail your Edge project and outlines the best practices for dealing with them.
Chapter 3, Designing and Building Edge Software, explores a sample Edge computing infrastructure, the roles and responsibilities for successful production deployments, and the best-practices architecture for Edge-native solutions.
Chapter 4, Edge Container Platforms, takes a closer look at the container platforms that are fundamental to hosting an Edge computing solution.
Chapter 5, Application Placement and Lifecycle Management, examines the practice of application placement and lifecycle management – arguably one of the most important issues in scaling a production Edge solution.
Chapter 6, Installing an Edge Agent on an Edge Node, gets your hands dirty installing an Open Horizon Management Hub and agent that are core to the autonomous management system key to production deployment.
Chapter 7, Register an Edge Node, takes you through the steps of registering your Edge node with the Open Horizon Management Hub.
Chapter 8, Using the Open Horizon CLI and API, takes a step back to provide guidance on the general use of the Open Horizon CLI and APIs.
Chapter 9, Autonomous and Flexible Management of Edge Services, dives into the details for developing and publishing an Edge service, creating a pattern, and then using that pattern to deploy your Edge service to your edge node.
Chapter 10, Managing Edge Scale with Policy-Based Workload Placement, transitions your focus to policy-based deployment – offering even greater flexibility and autonomy in deploying your solution at scale.
Chapter 11, Machine Learning Workload and Model Deployment, steps through the use of the Open Horizon Model Management System to control the deployment of your models for any AI/ML-based services that make up your Edge solution.
Chapter 12, Security at the Edge, explores the security challenges that can occur with Edge solutions, and how to leverage Open Horizon to address those concerns.
Chapter 13, Network Connectivity at the Edge, introduces the symbiotic relationship between Edge computing and network connectivity, and the emerging paradigm shift to DevSecNetOps.
Chapter 14, Building a Real-World Example Application, uses a single real-world example application to help tie together and cement the several capabilities that have been instructed in this book.
Chapter 15, Troubleshooting at the Edge, provides best practice guidance on testing and debugging production software at the Edge.
Chapter 16, Follow-On Topics, summarizes several topics that could not be covered in the scope of this book that you are encouraged to explore further on your own.
Chapter 17, Using the IBM Edge Application Manager Web UI, segues to IBM’s Edge Application Manager – product distribution of the LF Edge Open Horizon project – to detail the Web User Interface (UI) that it provides above and beyond the open source project on which it’s based.
