How Red Hat Edge helps manage and automate apps anywhere

IT architectures expand as organizations use distributed computing to efficiently deliver capabilities closer to where critical data is generated.

However, managing applications outside of the central datacenter or cloud is challenging. Network connectivity issues, bespoke edge deployments, lack of on-site support, and the massive scale of nodes to manage across environments is complex, especially for small teams. 

To be responsive, operations teams need to make application deployment as fast as possible. But speed cannot come at the expense of effective management and security measures, and teams cannot be expected to grow linearly with their environments.

Enterprise organizations require a platform that can handle the scalability of edge deployments on a variety of hardware to effectively manage applications across locations with limited (or no) IT staff.

Improve consistency by automating the connectivity, security focus, and infrastructure required to deploy applications across environments.

Red Hat helps enterprises manage applications across environments and out to the edge using Red Hat® Edge. 

By providing a central management platform, organizations gain the ability to:

• Maintain operations when connectivity is not guaranteed. Connectivity at the edge is never guaranteed, but with edge solutions that work—even if network connectivity drops or a node goes out of range—your applications can continue to run and changes can be made once network connectivity is reestablished.
• Manage with familiar tools. Teams spend less time learning different ways to do the same actions when they use a familiar set of tools, and instead can focus on getting their job done and returning value to the organization.
• Extend support to edge sites. Simplify upgrades, application orchestration, and life cycle management centrally and allow changes to be rolled out to nodes at the edge.
• Scale support even with a small team. Red Hat helps small teams to scale to support massive numbers of distributed nodes using a hub-and-spoke architecture, which allows for a single instance to control thousands of edge nodes as if they were located in a datacenter.

Automating applications outside of a central datacenter or cloud poses unique challenges. Automation can address these challenges, helping IT teams:

• Maintain a security focus. Run updates, patches, and required maintenance automatically, without sending a technician to the site.
• Reduce downtime. Simplify network management, and reduce network failure, while boosting the bottom line.
• Improve efficiency. Increase performance and reduce human error with automated analysis, monitoring, and alerting.
• Increase scalability. Apply configurations consistently across infrastructure and scale edge devices more quickly.
• Boost compliance auditing. Help systems and applications to operate as defined for security and audit assessments, meeting both regulatory requirements and internal standards.

Whether developing and deploying new applications, or more effectively managing existing ones, Red Hat Edge can help.

Red Hat’s open approach to building edge computing solutions allows organizations of all sizes to get the most value from faster innovation, deploying edge computing to process data closer to the source, and gain actionable insights. 

Whether adopting augmented reality at retail locations, incorporating artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) into manufacturing, or extending offline capabilities to edge devices onboard cruise ships, Red Hat Edge is making it possible for every industry to manage and automate applications anywhere.

Red Hat’s edge computing approach extends our hybrid cloud capabilities to help organizations innovate with flexible and security-focused edge technology.

Simplified management 
Oversee and control a large number of edge devices and applications from a single point. This helps to reduce operational complexity and enhances your team's efficiency by providing a unified interface for configuration, monitoring, and troubleshooting. 

Efficient over-the-air updates 
Over-the-air updates help to maintain the health and security focus of edge devices without manual intervention. By automating the update process, edge devices can run the latest software, reducing vulnerabilities and improving overall system reliability. 

Platform consistency 
Deploy consistent configurations and policies across diverse hardware and software platforms. Standardization with Red Hat's automation platform minimizes configuration drift and reduces the chances of compatibility issues. 

Resilience 
The self-healing capabilities of Red Hat Edge helps systems to detect and respond to failures automatically, minimizing downtime and supporting uninterrupted operation, adding unattended resilience where human intervention may not always be practical.

To learn more about Red Hat’s edge portfolio, connect with a Red Hat Edge team member.