What are containers?
The term ācontainerā refers to image files in a format defined by the Open Container Initiative (OCI) which was formed under the auspices of the Linux Foundation in 2015. Containers…
How to use label matching for application placement
When you have built an application for the edge, itās time to deploy it to specific sites and hosts with certain characteristics. This would be tedious if you would have…
Defining the edge in edge computing
Using the right words is essential, but in most cases, one word means different things to different people. In many situations, the definition of a word depends on the context….
Why to use edge-native event streaming and secrets management
Most edge applications have some parts of the application running at edge sites and other parts running in a central location. Take the example of a camera-based analytics application. Image…
How to distribute site-specific secrets and configurations
In the Avassa system, an application specification defines the container structure and associated application-specific configuration and secrets. You want to aim for keeping one application specification per application. The reason…
The business value of cloud-native tooling for distributed edge clouds
A priority in modern software development is to continuously improve the software by quickly rolling out new or improved features. This is done by introducing automation into the various stages…
Avassa is cool!
Despite our Swedish heritage, we have always thought that we are a pretty cool company. And certainly that the software our incredible engineering team is producing is very cool. But…
Why breaking free from data silos is the key to success in Industry 4.0
The recent snowballing growth of decentralized data collection from IoT applications has profound implications on performance and scalability in industrial settings. Data needs to be aggregated, analyzed, contextualized, and visualized…
CI/CD tools and Avassa: how to build a successful integration
All our customers have already invested in CI/CD for their cloud applications and we aim to be a very good citizen in those environments. This article describes in detail what…
What is distributed edge application orchestration?
In a previous article series, we looked at the difference between central cloud and edge application orchestration. In that article, we defined distributed edge orchestration as: š” Distributed edge orchestration…