Edge Infrastructure Manager#

Overview#

Edge Infrastructure Manager is a policy based secure life cycle and centralized control plane of fleet of edge devices spread across distributed locations enabling local execution of applications.

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High-Level functional domains of Edge Infrastructure Manager

Customers Highlights#

  • Organize edge devices into a hierarchical structure of organizations, regions, and sites, and enforce policies with multi-tenancy support.

  • Secure device onboarding and operating system provisioning. Supporting immutable Edge Microvisor Toolkit Operating System and Ubuntu LTS.

  • Support for Fleet level Operating system upgrades.

  • Policy based deep observability (Alerts, metrics, logs and telemetry) or hardware and software resources at fleet level .

  • Can be deployed on-cloud or on-premises.

Developers Highlights#

  • Built with model-based design and cloud-native principles for scalability, maintenance, and extensibility.

  • Expose CRUD based North bound APIs for UI/User for managing resources.

  • Expose APIs to cluster and application orchestrator to manage Kubernetes* and application on fleet of devices.

Key Performance Indicators#

  • Onboard and OS provision edge device in under 7 minutes. Concurrent onboarding of up to 50 edge devices.

  • Support concurrent 10,000 edge devices for normal operations and 1000 edge devices OS provisioning.

  • Support Atomic Upgrade and Rollback with Edge Microvisor Toolkit Package base Update for Ubuntu LTS.

  • Trusted Node with Secure Boot and full disk encryption.

  • Zero-touch Onboarding and OS provisioning edge device without need for a keyboard and monitor. Local USB and remote HTTPs based OS provisioning support.

  • Wide range of Supported hardware base on Intel® Core™ and Intel® Xeon® platforms with single/multiple storage, Intel® GPU and Ethernet.