Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, has officially announced the launch of Red Hat Edge Manager, which would be a new comprehensive fleet management solution for edge devices at scale.
According to certain reports, Red Hat Edge Manager arrives on the bearing an ability to effectively streamline edge computing infrastructure and application oversight from a single console, something it does for the purpose of reiterating end-to-end security capabilities’ importance.
To understand the significance of the wider development, though, we must take into account how managing edge devices and software mandates seamless collaboration across organizations and systems, along with centralized management and orchestration of edge infrastructure and applications.
Now, such a centralized approach also introduces, on its own, a whole new set of challenges, including connectivity demands, heterogeneous hardware, operational complexity and more.
Against these challenges, Red Hat built Red Hat Edge Manager brings to the fore an elastic, resilient experience, while simultaneously reducing costs and enhancing user control, software security footprint, and visibility of thousands of edge sites.
Talk about the whole value proposition on a slightly deeper level, we begin from its promise to scale up fleet management. This translates go how customers can now deploy apps and infrastructure through a policy-based approach of a desired state on a single- or multi-node plus configuration, thus achieving scale and operational efficiency.
Next up, there is potential for skills gap mitigation. In the given regard, the Red Hat Edge Manager will conceive a more user-friendly and easy-to-use environment with simplified management so to address knowledge and IT skill gaps at edge locations.
Another detail worth a mention is rooted in the availability of proactive device insights, insights that can come in handy when the agenda is to configure and monitor critical device resources with customizable alerts to track utilization. Not just that, customers can also come expecting to capture metrics and logs, as well as support effective issue remediation and operational awareness.
Then, there is the prospect of accessing hardened device communications. You see, the technology is understood to employ mutual Transport Layer Security (mTLS) for robust and authenticated agent service communication. Furthermore, it also establishes a consistent security posture which facilitates the prevention of impersonation or duplication of device identities through rigorous identity verification.
Hold on, we still have a few bits left to unpack, considering we haven’t yet touched upon the solution’s bid to provide flexible management options. Thanks to this flexibility, users can choose their ideal deployment model. Complementing the same would be a on-premises management facility that delivers comparable or greater value than cloud alternatives.
We also haven’t touched upon Red Hat Edge Manager’s resilient agent architecture, which leverages a robust agent-based architecture for scalable device management to maintain connectivity and control even in challenging network conditions, without complex network configurations.
Rounding up highlights would be a lifecycle management facility. The stated facility basically provides secure device onboarding and decommissioning, along with application and OS upgrades.
Among other things, we ought to mention how, optimized for modern container-centric workflows and with upcoming support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux image mode, Red Hat Edge Manager treads up a long distance to manage containerized workloads across Podman, Docker and Kubernetes.
Such a mechanism also enables users to deploy configurations and applications to individual devices or entire fleets with automated rollouts and real-time visibility into progress and device health.
“Red Hat Edge Manager represents a bold step forward in empowering organizations to confidently manage their increasingly distributed edge. This technology preview offers a comprehensive and more secure foundation for achieving unprecedented scale and unlocking significant new value,” said Francis Chow, vice president and general manager, In-Vehicle Operating System and Edge, Red Hat.
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