Core Edge Architecture
This chapter covers the basic user edge architecture, which tends to focus on managing and enabling IoT-type sensors and smart devices. The subtle differences between this architecture and legacy IoT architectures are highlighted. The use of container technology is common in these edge architectures to accommodate the limited capacity of field-deployed edge devices, even if they don’t traditionally support common container engines or Linux distributions.
You will learn about the first of the three archetype patterns: the edge device hub pattern (depicted in Figure 3.6), how it improves on legacy IoT architectures, and some common variations and modifications you can make to it.
In this chapter, we will cover the following main topics:
- What is legacy IoT architecture?
- Device configuration
- Edge devices versus edge hub
- Containers
- Disconnected operations
By the end of this chapter, you should have a good idea of how and...
