Technical requirements

This chapter is going to focus on how the LF Edge Open Horizon, and by extension IEAM, help solve the problem of placing containerized microservices on the Edge – getting the right service to the right place at the right time. To that end, you must have a particular Edge topology, infrastructure, and set of application services in mind that you can use to think about the capabilities we will be discussing here. We recommend that you follow the constructs outlined in the previous chapters as you consider your project.

For this chapter, we will leverage a scenario involving POS terminals and intelligent cameras as edge devices as examples. Nonetheless, the principles can be applied to virtually any industry scenario.