This is a lightweight Kubernetes solution built on the edge capabilities of Red Hat OpenShift, along with an edge-optimized operating system built on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This latest addition to Red Hat's edge portfolio aims to provide a future-proof platform that allows organizations' architectures to evolve as their workload strategies change.
As more companies deploy edge computing across a wider range of use cases, many new questions, operational needs, and business challenges arise. In sectors such as automotive and manufacturing, among others, organizations face diverse environmental, security, and operational challenges that demand the ability to work with small edge devices in these resource-constrained environments. Finally, different devices have varying requirements in terms of computing power, software compatibility, and security footprint.
With Red Hat Device Edge, organizations can have the flexibility to deploy containers at the edge in a small environment, reducing compute requirements by up to 50% compared to traditional Kubernetes edge configurations. It also helps address many of the emerging issues surrounding large-scale edge computing at the device edge by incorporating:
● Kubernetes built for edge deployments, enabling IT teams to leverage familiar Kubernetes features in a new, smaller, and lighter environment offered by MicroShift. This lowers the barrier to entry for teams building cloud-native applications for edge computing environments and allows them to use their existing Kubernetes skills to achieve greater consistency of operations across the hybrid cloud, from the data center to public clouds to the edge.
● An edge-optimized Linux operating system, built on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform and tailored for small edge devices with smart updates that use minimal bandwidth. This helps organizations address the challenges of intermittent connectivity while mitigating the impact on edge innovation.
● Capabilities to centrally scale and monitor fleets of edge devices with Red Hat Smart Management. IT teams can use zero-touch provisioning, system health visibility, and automatic rollback updates to maintain a more robust edge management and application security posture.
Red Hat Device Edge for resource-constrained and dispersed use cases across various industries
Red Hat Device Edge was created to help Red Hat customers and partners address their most demanding edge environments. For example, Lockheed Martin has collaborated with Red Hat on the MicroShift project community and is also working on deploying Red Hat Device Edge to modernize and standardize its delivery of AI applications and workloads in extreme conditions, including wildfire management, contested military environments, and space. Additionally, ABB plans to use Red Hat Device Edge for ABB Ability™ Edgenius™ on resource-constrained devices. Edgenius is a comprehensive edge platform for industrial software applications.
Red Hat Device Edge addresses the needs of organizations requiring small-form-factor edge devices that support applications running in bare metal, virtualized, or containerized environments, regardless of industry. Other use cases include, but are not limited to, the following.
● Miniaturized and connected nodes in public transport, where edge devices are often on the move, but still need fast AI/ML processing of local data in real time (i.e., railways, mining, cars, drones).
● Resilient resource nodes in challenging locations, such as weather monitoring stations, where, despite harsh and difficult-to-support environments, an edge device will still be able to take care of itself with the ability to perform automated software rollbacks, maintain a stronger security posture, and better enforce controls on sensitive data.
● New edge scenarios with constraints where thousands of edge devices may be running applications in locations where charging, temperature, and connectivity are important issues.
Red Hat Device Edge addresses the needs of organizations at every stage of their edge computing journey by running a wide variety of workloads using Podman for edge container management or MicroShift for a Kubernetes API. Customers can even run legacy Windows applications within a virtual machine.
Availability
Red Hat Device Edge is planned as an early developer preview next year, and is expected to be fully available with full support later in 2023.
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