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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

K3s Installation and Configuration

This chapter offers a quick deep dive into K3s. We will start by understanding what K3s is and its architecture, and then we will learn how to prepare your ARM device for K3s. Following this, you will learn how to perform a basic installation of K3s from a single node cluster to a multi-node cluster, followed by a backend configuration using MySQL. Additionally, this chapter covers how to install an Ingress controller, using Helm Charts and Helm, to expose your Services across the load balancer created by NGINX. Finally, we will look at how to uninstall K3s and troubleshoot your cluster. At the end of the chapter, you will find additional resources to implement additional customizations for K3s.

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

  • Introducing K3s and its architecture
  • Preparing your edge environment to run K3s
  • Creating K3s single and multi-node clusters
  • Using external MySQL storage for K3s
  • ...