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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

Setting up Longhorn for storage

In terms of persistent information, you will find two types of containers, stateless and stateful containers. A stateless or ephemeral container doesn't persist information generated inside a container. A stateful container can persist the information even when this is deleted. K3s includes, by default, a way to persist data using a storage type (called storage class in Kubernetes) called local-path. This storage is a basic and pretty lightweight implementation, designed for edge devices. A common feature used on Kubernetes is to have a persistent volume claim that allows your pods to consume (write and read data) from different nodes. And this is a persistence volume configuration with the access mode key, set as ReadWriteMany (RWX). This feature is often used in production scenarios and it's pretty important because it enables you to share information from your different services. Longhorn provides this feature in a pretty lightweight presentation...