Kubernetes Management Software (e.g Rancher) or traditional virtualization solutions (e.g VMware vSphere) have a single control plane to manage one or at best a few data centers and/or few Kubernetes clusters. If you apply this approach to the edge, you will have thousands of control planes across all locations, leading to escalating maintenance and staffing costs.
Public clouds are designed for hyper-scale homogenous regions. They do not easily work with distributed, non-homogenous edge infrastructure. For example, AWS Outposts does not run or manage workloads on any edge infrastructure the user already owns.
Upstream open source stacks such as Kubernetes and OpenStack do not solve for ongoing day-2 operations like upgrades and monitoring. Doing it yourself (DIY) is expensive and can take months or years to implement and operate. It is also challenging to hire and retain open source and cloud operational staff.
Kubernetes Management Software (e.g Rancher) or traditional virtualization solutions (e.g VMware vSphere) have a single control plane to manage one or at best a few data centers and/or few Kubernetes clusters. If you apply this approach to the edge, you will have thousands of control planes across all locations, leading to escalating maintenance and staffing costs.
Public clouds are designed for hyper-scale homogenous regions. They do not easily work with distributed, non-homogenous edge infrastructure. For example, AWS Outposts does not run or manage workloads on any edge infrastructure the user already owns.
Upstream open source stacks such as Kubernetes and OpenStack do not solve for ongoing day-2 operations like upgrades and monitoring. Doing it yourself (DIY) is expensive and can take months or years to implement and operate. It is also challenging to hire and retain open source and cloud operational staff.
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