Edge clusters
IBM Edge Application Manager (IEAM) edge cluster capability helps you manage and deploy workloads from a management hub cluster to remote instances of OpenShift® Container Platform or other Kubernetes-based clusters. Edge clusters are IEAM edge nodes that are Kubernetes clusters. An edge cluster enables use cases at the edge, which require co-location of compute with business operations, or that require more scalability, availability, and compute capability than what can be supported by an edge device. Further, it is not uncommon for edge clusters to provide application services that are needed to support services running on edge devices due to their close proximity to edge devices. IEAM deploys edge services to an edge cluster, via a Kubernetes operator, enabling the same autonomous deployment mechanisms used with edge devices. The full power of Kubernetes as a container management platform is available for edge services that are deployed by IEAM.
This following sections describe how to install an edge cluster and install the IEAM agent on it.