Summary
The chapter started with a discussion of service delivery automation, which is a rather broad term for automating human tasks in a business and is relevant to edge computing. Whether it is DevOps or IaC, achieving scalability through automation ends up being one of the major benefits. We saw that from monitoring edge devices to updating the applications and models running on those devices, there is an opportunity to apply automation.
The latter half of the chapter addressed the security aspect by introducing the onboarding of edge devices with security features before shipping them. While it seemed like we digressed, it was important to talk about security in the context of automation. Automation allows enterprises to build capabilities that can react with minimal human interaction in a more secure and trusted way.
The final section dealt with the most interesting and relevant topic, namely AI. It seems AI is omnipresent in edge computing from AI applications deployed...