Fleet management
We’ve stressed the point throughout this book that your enterprise will likely leverage thousands, if not tens or even hundreds of thousands, of Edge devices and servers. They will come in a variety of form factors and sizes (both in terms of their physical dimensions and their compute capacity), serving a variety of needs and purpose. They will be provisioned across hundreds of locations.
The thing they will have in common is they are running Linux, and will host containers on either Docker, Podman, or Kubernetes.
Your Edge deployment manager (presumably based on Open Horizon) will handle getting the right container to the right place at the right time and keeping them up to date – based on your deployment policies, and without any further intervention.
However, there are other elements of provisioning these systems that must be addressed, including the following:
- Credentialling the device
- Imaging the operating system (OS)
- Provisioning...
