Bringing DevOps To The Edge
DevOps.com, Thursday, October 17th, 2024
With networks rapidly expanding through edge device proliferation, managing these devices is becoming more arduous. I had the opportunity to sit down with Sudhir Reddy, CTO of Esper, to discuss the growth in edge device deployments and how bringing DevOps, a process discipline normally associated with software development, could help solve a number of today's edge challenges.
Esper concentrates on device management, in this case, enterprise edge devices distributed across a range of business locations. Great examples include airport kiosks displaying advertising or passenger information, restaurant POS systems or back-of-house displays, or even medical input systems targeted at patients and providers.
Previously, device management was a center-out motion with centralized servers and unsophisticated endpoints. But this model has given way to more engaging, sophisticated endpoints that must be responsive and interactive without relying on centralized updates. When staring down 50,000 or more endpoints in a network, central management is no longer tenable. Managing a dozen devices in a single restaurant might fit a centralized model, but a franchised model with thousands of worldwide locations in different time zones simply will not scale without some level of edge autonomy.