Book Image

Edge Computing Systems with Kubernetes

By : Sergio Méndez
Book Image

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

Technical requirements

Before starting, you need the following to run the examples in this chapter:

  • A Raspberry Pi cluster with K3s installed
  • kubectl configured to access your cluster
  • Helm installed and configured

Note

If you don’t want to use Traefik and you want to omit the default installation of this ingress controller in your cluster, add the --no-deploy traefik --disable traefik flags when you are installing your master node. For other details of installing your K3s cluster, refer to Chapter 3, K3S Advanced Configurations and Management, or visit https://rancher.com/docs/k3s/latest/en/installation/install-options/server-config/. Remember to install a bare metal load balancer such as MetalLB, which is necessary to generate a load balancer service, which is needed to install ingress controllers.

With these requirements, you are going to experiment with exposing your applications in different ways.

For more detail and code snippets, check out...