How to use label matching for application placement
When you have built an application for the edge, it’s time to deploy it to specific sites and hosts with certain characteristics. This would be tedious if you would have…
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…
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…
The extremely short story of how I converted a k8s application to Avassa
Converting an application from Kubernetes to Avassa might sound like it has the potential of being a time-consuming maneuver. So when one of our customers asked if it would be…
Edge and cloud orchestration — same same but different (part 2 of 2)
As described in the previous article in this series, the functional requirements and characteristics for edge orchestration and central cloud orchestration are different. This article looks at the different functional…
How we ended up not using Kubernetes in our edge platform
The emergence of cloud computing was predicated on the presence of flexible application platforms in centralized locations providing massive amounts of computing and storage. The cloud computing operational model paved…
Edge and cloud orchestration — same same but different (part 1 of 2)
We all are engineers, and as engineers, we are solution focused: “Give me a problem, and I have a solution for it”. But in some cases, we are too solution…