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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

Using managed services from cloud providers

It is important to choose the right cloud provider. Several cloud providers are available, but the top three are Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, and Azure. Let’s look at the different managed services that you can use with these cloud providers:

  • AWS: You can use virtual machines with EC2 and Graviton 2 ARM instances to test software that you will run at the edge. Fargate is a service that you can use to deploy applications in containers. It provides several options. For instance, you can scale the service automatically, something similar to what Kubernetes does. Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is the managed service of AWS for Kubernetes. It’s a very strong solution for EKS, but compared to other services, you have to do more manual steps for certain tasks, such as scaling the solution. Talking about databases, you can use Aurora as a MySQL or Postgres instance. You can use other managed services based on Redis...