Avassa Edge Platform: Scalable Edge Application Management

Deploy. Scale. Secure. The Next-Gen Edge Computing Solution.

Avassa Edge Platform is a leading edge computing platform designed for seamless edge deployment, application lifecycle management, and container orchestration. Whether you’re managing a single application across hundreds or thousands of locations, or a diverse set of workloads across a varying set of infrastructure, Avassa provides a secure, scalable, and efficient edge platform solution.

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Seamless Edge Deployment, Management, and Orchestration

Your distributed containerized applications need lifecycle management, monitoring, security, multi-tenancy, and OS upgrades.

What if you had an easy-to-use tool for managing all your containerized applications, VMs, and operating system upgrades at the edge, extending the tooling you’ve come to love from central cloud environments?

Avassa’s application-centric edge platform helps you manage and monitor edge systems and containerized edge applications. With applications deployed in many locations, you need extra care and control. Avassa provides automated and efficient placement and versioning functionality of containers as well as the ability to monitor and observe application health with ease. You can also perform operating system updates as well as utilize support for VMs for your not-yet-containerized workloads.

Diagram of Avassa Control Tower connecting application and IT teams to edge sites for targeted deployments and monitoring.

Container Application Management & Operations

Define applications using standard container practices.

Remote Site Monitoring & Onboarding

A comprehensive inventory of all edge locations and their available resources.

Scalable Edge Deployments: From Cloud to Edge

Combine the two, using targeted edge deployments, and only place and monitor applications where it makes sense.

DID YOU KNOW

By 2028, 80% of custom software running at the physical edge will be deployed in containers?

Gartner, 2023

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Control Tower: Centralized and Automated Edge Management

The Avassa Control Tower, available as a service or installed on your private data center, does what it says: it controls your distributed containerized applications including VMs, and operating systems updates through user interfaces and APIs.

Avassa Control Tower “New Deployment” screen showing a form to configure deployment name, application, version, and placement, with YAML preview.

Edge Site Management

Teams in charge of managing distributed compute resources use the Control Tower to:

Assemble sets of distributed hosts into sites to allow for granular resource assignments for application deployment purposes.
Proactively monitor your edge applications, as well as the edge hosts and the dependencies in between.
Perform administrative tasks on the distributed clusters including observing resource consumption for planning purposes or planned maintenance activities without impacting application availability.
Roll out new versions of the operating system on your edge hosts.

Application Lifecycle

Teams in charge of managing edge applications use the Control Tower to:

Define applications in terms of constituent containerized applications and VMs, associated application configuration, edge network configuration, and resource needs.
• Declaratively define deployments across your edge based on label matching. Labels can either be administratively set up or refer to the hosts’ automatically discovered available resources.
Deploy, upgrade, and change the containerized applications across distributed clusters, including VMs for legacy application workloads.
End-to-end automation radically reduces the manual work needed to manage applications at scale.
Monitor the health and observe the behavior of containerized applications.

Common requirements for edge applications are distributed event streaming and secrets management. The Control Tower manages a central repository of secrets that can be selectively distributed to sites and applications with strong security. Each edge site has a local event bus which can be efficiently queried from the Control Tower.

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Edge Enforcer: Secure and Autonomous Edge Sites

The Avassa Edge Enforcer is a container application installed on each host. It provides all required application services to enable unique edge site autonomy and application continuity while having a uniquely small performance footprint.

Avassa Edge Enforcer container app ensures secure, autonomous edge sites with minimal performance impact on each host.

Avassa Edge Enforcer is a key differentiator compared to many other over-the-top or fleet management solutions. It removes the burden of managing a complex software stack on the edge sites. The Control Tower performs automatic upgrades of the Edge Enforcer.

Edge Enforcer provides secure edge orchestration, containerized application scheduling, and enterprise-grade orchestration for distributed environments.

Cluster Management

The Edge Enforcer provides automatic call-home, site-local cluster formation including state replication and a local container registry so that applications can be rescheduled across hosts. It also configures all required application networking including an embedded DNS service. The Edge Enforcer also proactively monitors the operational status of the edge hosts including resource availability. It embeds an OS controller that autonomously manages the OS upgrades on the site as defined by central policies.

Application Scheduling

The Edge Enforcer enables autonomous edge applications, both containers and VMs. On request from the Control Tower, it automatically schedules applications on to edge hosts in the site. Automatic fail-over and migration is built-in as well as local edge host monitoring. The Edge Enforcer discovers local devices such as GPUs or attached cameras so they can be made available to applications. Local host resources are managed to allocate available resources across applications and tenants.

The Edge Enforcer provides cluster-local event streaming and secrets management. Secrets and events are autonomously maintained on the site. The events can be distributed to your central solution. Secrets, in contrast, are configured centrally and securely distributed to the sites.

Avassa in Action – Real-World Success Stories

Learn how leading enterprises use Avassa to streamline edge deployments, container orchestration, and remote management across industries like retail, industrial, and telecom.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Avassa fully automates edge application management, handling deployments, updates, monitoring, and troubleshooting with minimal manual effort. Its lightweight edge-native platform ensures seamless scaling, autonomy, and resilience, even in unstable or disconnected environments.

✅ End-to-End Automation – Ensures applications are always updated and running smoothly.
✅ Built-in Infrastructure Services – Automates networking, secrets management, and key edge functions.
✅ Optimized for Scale & Edge Constraints – Runs efficiently across thousands of sites on resource-limited infrastructure.

With Avassa, you focus on building applications—the platform takes care of the rest.

Read more in our data sheet.

Unlike cloud-based solutions, Avassa is purpose-built for edge computing, eliminating the complexity and limitations of retrofitting cloud-tools like Kubernetes for edge environments.

✅ Simplified Management – No need for multiple add-ons; Avassa provides an integrated, zero-touch edge platform.
✅ Optimized for Scale – Runs efficiently across thousands of sites with a lightweight footprint.
✅ Edge-Specific Capabilities – Supports canary rollouts and autonomous operation in disconnected environments.
✅ Cloud Independence – Applications stay self-sufficient without relying on a central cloud.

Yes. Avassa is built for fully autonomous edge sites, ensuring applications run smoothly even in unstable or disconnected networks.

✅ Local Control & Resilience – The Edge Enforcer handles restarts, migrations, and failovers independently, with cached and replicated images, secrets, and configurations.
✅ Optimized for Unstable Networks – Uses asynchronous pub/sub communication to apply updates when connectivity restores and downloads only changed container layers to reduce bandwidth usage.

With Avassa, edge applications remain operational, secure, and up-to-date—even in fully disconnected scenarios.

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How do offline sites behave in the Avassa Edge Platform?

Kubernetes was built for the cloud, assuming unlimited compute, stable networks, and centralized management—which doesn’t align with edge computing needs.

🚫 Too Complex for the Edge – Kubernetes requires clusters, add-ons, and dedicated teams, making it unmanageable at scale across thousands of edge sites.
🚫 Not Designed for Edge Constraints – Lacks built-in multi-cluster management and struggles with resource-limited, disconnected environments.
✅ The Avassa Alternative – A lightweight, all-in-one edge platform that self-updates, runs autonomously, and focuses on applications—not infrastructure.
With Avassa, edge applications run securely and efficiently—without Kubernetes complexity.

Learn more: How we ended up not using Kubernetes in our edge platform.

Avassa is built on zero-trust principles, securing edge sites even in untrusted networks and unprotected locations.

🔒 Edge Host Protection – At boot, hosts require an external encryption key to access data. Untrusted hosts remain locked down, with traffic blocked by default.
🔑 Secure Secrets Management – A built-in secrets manager ensures automatic provisioning and removal of sensitive credentials at edge sites.
📁 Data & Communication Security – All stored data is encrypted, application traffic is micro-segmented with VXLANs, and communications are secured via WireGuard.
🛡 Threat Mitigation & Compliance – Supports policy-based access control, logging, site quarantining, and automated key rotation for continuous security and auditability.
With Avassa, security is embedded at every layer—no cloud dependency required.

The Avassa Edge Platform is a horizontal solution and works across numerous industries. We have our strongest presence in:

Manufacturing and machine builders that need to automate the application management at the shop floor.
Retail: Brick and mortar sstores that build more advanced in-store experience and need to provide offline capabilities.
Transportation: Commercial vehicles are becoming software-driven. A fully automated application life-cycle management solution for the vehicles need to be in place.
Property management: Buildings are automated using various sensors and control systems. This needs to be software-driven.
Energy: Utilities and energy corporations with application workloads running in grid stations.

A single Control Tower can easily manage tens of thousands of edge sites. Multiple Control Towers can be used to scale vertically in case of hundreds of thousands.

Learn more and read the test results in our Scalability Report

Data sheet

Operating applications at the distributed edge

Here you can access and download our data sheet for the Avassa Platform to get this information to-go.

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Avassa Edge Platform: Scalable Edge Application Management

Seamless Edge Deployment, Management, and Orchestration