How it Works#

Edge Manageability Framework is the primary solution to manage edge environments efficiently and securely. It encompasses a range of features that cater to the unique demands of edge computing, ensuring seamless integration and operation across diverse hardware and software landscapes.

Edge Manageability Framework is designed to be the central hub for managing edge infrastructure and edge application deployments at scale across geographically distributed edge sites. It offers automated application deployment based on customer-defined configuration & criteria, multitenancy and identity & access management for tenants, observability & alerting capabilities, dashboards for quick views of status & issue identification, and management of all software deployments & infrastructure components including edge nodes (i.e. hosts) and clusters.

At a high level, this is how you can use Edge Orchestrator.

How it works

The Get Started Guide provides you with a step by step process to use the system.

If instead you are directly interested in one of the orchestrator functionality you can use one of the following steps:

1. Set up Edge Infrastructure: Leverage Edge Orchestrator’s fleet management and cluster orchestration capabilities to onboard and configure hosts and form them into clusters.

2. Package and Deploy Applications: Use Edge Orchestrator’s application orchestration features to import and package applications. Create profiles to customize deploy-time environments. Configure conditions for automated deployment.

3. Deploy to Edge Automatically: Packages are deployed to clusters based on metadata, or to lists of custom targets. Edge Orchestrator automatically distributes software updates and deploys the latest packages to new hosts as they onboard.

4. Dashboard and Alerts: Observability features are woven throughout Edge Orchestrator. Performance monitoring and alerting highlight critical issues, while the unified dashboard offers visibility across the entire edge stack.

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