Preparing the working environment
As we embark on learning about Open Horizon-based edge computing, it’s important to note that the environment we’re setting up is relatively small. In a real production environment, the Management Hub will be hosted on a Red Hat OCP Kubernetes infrastructure with multiple pods running various components of the hub. The Management Hub can be reached over the public internet. IBM provides a commercial offering of Open Horizon called IBM Edge Application Manager.
In contrast, the AIO environment that we will be setting up for this book will be in a LAN environment to keep the complexity low so that you can focus on learning the concepts and be able to practice them locally.
We suggest that you prepare at least two Ubuntu hosts – either two bare-metal machines or two VMs. Though you can do everything with one machine, having two machines makes it easier to follow the hands-on examples.
One machine will be used to host the...
