Building a Real-World Example Application

Now that you understand why edge computing is important, let’s explore what it takes to build a secure and scalable architecture. We’ll get hands-on practice with various components and then start building a real-world example application. This application will have containers, services, policies, and model publishing to deploy machine inferencing and object detection examples at an Edge device node. With this example, we will focus on the end-to-end deployment of containerized services using Open Horizon.

The architecture of the application is depicted here:

Figure 14.1 – Example application architecture

This example application consumes video content from either a Real-Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) stream, a stored video file, or a USB camera on an Edge device such as an Intel NUC (0), Nvidia Nano, Nvidia Xavier, or a Raspberry Pi. The captured video stream is converted to a series of...