Summary

This book is first and foremost about the LFEdge Open Horizon open-source project. The core functionality that you need to scale your Edge solution is provided by Open Horizon.

However, on occasion, it helps to have the strength of an industry leader stand behind the open source to both ensure its robustness and to take advantage of key enhancements they will have brought to their commercial offering. The IBM Edge Application Manager (IEAM) is exactly that – a commercial distribution of the Open Horizon project.

One of the key enhancements that IBM has made, besides basing the implementation on Red Hat’s OpenShift enterprise Kubernetes platform, is the inclusion of the web-based UI. While we expect that most DevOps practitioners will perform most of their everyday tasks through the Open Horizon CLI or API, it is useful to have a UI through which to monitor the running deployment and perform simple administrative tasks.

In this chapter, you have learned...