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Edge Computing Systems with Kubernetes

By : Sergio Méndez
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Edge Computing Systems with Kubernetes

By: Sergio Méndez

Overview of this book

Edge computing is a way of processing information near the source of data instead of processing it on data centers in the cloud. In this way, edge computing can reduce latency when data is processed, improving the user experience on real-time data visualization for your applications. Using K3s, a light-weight Kubernetes and k3OS, a K3s-based Linux distribution along with other open source cloud native technologies, you can build reliable edge computing systems without spending a lot of money. In this book, you will learn how to design edge computing systems with containers and edge devices using sensors, GPS modules, WiFi, LoRa communication and so on. You will also get to grips with different use cases and examples covered in this book, how to solve common use cases for edge computing such as updating your applications using GitOps, reading data from sensors and storing it on SQL and NoSQL databases. Later chapters will show you how to connect hardware to your edge clusters, predict using machine learning, and analyze images with computer vision. All the examples and use cases in this book are designed to run on devices using 64-bit ARM processors, using Raspberry Pi devices as an example. By the end of this book, you will be able to use the content of these chapters as small pieces to create your own edge computing system.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Part 1: Edge Computing Basics
7
Part 2: Cloud Native Applications at the Edge
13
Part 3: Edge Computing Use Cases in Practice

Testing observability and traffic splitting with Linkerd

Now, it’s time to test the observability. To start exploring the dashboard and see the observability, follow the given steps:

  1. Open your dashboard by running the following command:
    $ linkerd viz dashboard

This will automatically open the dashboard to the URL http://localhost:50750.

The dashboard will look as in the following screenshot:

Figure 8.5 – Linkerd dashboard

To load the right information, select the MYAPPS namespace in the combo box in the left sidebar, and then click on the Deployments icon to load the HTTP Metrics and TCP Metrics information.

To see similar information as the previous dashboard, execute the following command to start sending traffic to our deployment:

$ ENDPOINT=$(kubectl get svc nginx-ingress-ingress-nginx-controller --output jsonpath='{.status.loadBalancer.ingress[0].ip}' -n nginx-ingress)
$ while true; do curl http://$ENDPOINT...