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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

Designing Your Own Edge Computing System

Sometimes, the success of a project is not the technology – it is the way that you design and execute it. Edge computing systems can start as a small startup idea, so you can use it to reference the lean canvas business plan template to do the first draft of the idea that you have to create the system. But what if we have some similar template adapted to edge computing? This is where the Edge Computing System Design Canvas can help you. The idea of this diagram is to give you a tool to create the first draft of all the things you need to create an edge computing system, and you can consider the chapters of this book as building blocks to create your own. In this chapter, we are going to explore cloud providers that you can use to host your services, some best practices to take into consideration, software that you can explore to build your edge computing system, and other use cases that you can explore to create a system if it’...