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

Installing an Edge Agent on an Edge Node

Now that you have a good idea why Edge computing is needed, what it takes to design and build such a scalable Edge platform, the technologies involved, and what an enterprise-class solution must consider from a workload life cycle management point of view, it is about time we get into the nuts and bolts of putting a practical system together.

For an application workload to be placed on an Edge node, an Edge Agent needs to be installed on the Edge node. Once the Edge Agent has been successfully installed, it works with the Management Hub to manage the complete life cycle of containerized application workload deployment and run the application on the Edge node. As described earlier, Edge nodes are broadly categorized into two types: Edge devices and Edge clusters. The process of installing the Edge Agent on both types of Edge nodes is similar.

In this chapter, we are going to cover the following main topics: