You're reading from Real-World Edge Computing Scale, secure, and succeed in the realm of edge computing with Open Horizon

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781835885840

Length 296 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

EdgeDB

Concepts

Edge Computing

Authors (2):

Robert High

Sanjeev Gupta

View More author details

Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Managing the Edge FREE CHAPTER

2. Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Edge Computing

3. Chapter 2: Practicalities of Edge Computing

4. Chapter 3: Designing and Building Edge Software

5. Chapter 4: Edge Container Platforms

6. Chapter 5: Application Placement and Life Cycle Management

7. Part 2: Working on the Edge

8. Chapter 6: Installing an Edge Agent on an Edge Node

9. Chapter 7: Registering an Edge Node

10. Chapter 8: Using the Open Horizon CLI and API

11. Chapter 9: Autonomous and Flexible Management of Edge Services

12. Chapter 10: Managing Edge Scale with Policy-Based Workload Placement

13. Part 3: Advancing the Edge System

14. Chapter 11: Machine Learning Workload and Model Deployment

15. Chapter 12: Security at the Edge

16. Chapter 13: Network Connectivity at the Edge

17. Part 4: Edge Management in Practice

18. Chapter 14: Building a Real-World Example Application

19. Chapter 15: Troubleshooting at the Edge

20. Chapter 16: Follow-on Topics

21. Chapter 17: Using the IBM Edge Application Manager Web UI

22. Index

Why subscribe?

23. Other Books You May Enjoy

Options to install the Edge Agent

The Open Horizon documentation describes several different ways to install the Edge Agent on Edge devices. The most important options are as follows:

Automated agent installation
Bulk agent installation
FDO-based agent installation

We’ll go through each in brief in the following subsections.

Automated agent installation

The Edge Agent installation process goes through several stages. At a high level, for the proper functioning of the Edge Agent, you must ensure that all prerequisite conditions are met, an Edge node architecture-specific binary is used, an appropriate Management Hub certificate is obtained, and an appropriate container runtime such as Docker or Podman is installed. The details are described in the manual agent installation process of the Open Horizon document1. Given the complexity involving all these variabilities, the Open Horizon development team has done an excellent job of providing an automation...