Automate to Achieve Scale
Deploying applications and models to hundreds and thousands of edge devices and edge clusters/nodes, then monitoring and managing all these things, is a challenge and not for the faint of heart. With the proliferation of these heterogeneous edge devices and the services required in an edge solution, it is almost impossible to manually deploy applications on these devices and manage them at scale, especially when it comes to networking components. The more prudent approach would be to introduce automation. In fact, it is an absolute necessity.
From monitoring the devices to updating the applications and models running on those devices, the goal of automation is to allow enterprises to build capabilities that can act and react with the solution components in a more secure and trusted manner with minimal human interaction. The other facet of automation is the ability to scale. An automated process should work for hundreds and thousands of devices whether it...