Time for a home truth about doing edge computing: The one thing most likely to kill your edge Kubernetes project is a brown cardboard box. We’ve spent more than a decade containerizing and moving to the cloud (and we’re still at it).
Anyone involved with maintaining servers or fleets of devices at the edge will tell you the same thing: Hardware failures are business as usual.
These things should be included in any holistic edge Kubernetes system and come out of the box along with sensible alerting rules.
We’ve been building features into our Palette Edge Kubernetes management platform to tackle these kinds of scenarios.