Red Hat Edge Manager: Modernize your cloud and edge infrastructure

Digital transformation requires infrastructure to evolve faster than business demand. Red Hat Edge Manager and modern virtualization solutions allow organizations to operate efficiently from the cloud to the edge, integrating AI-assisted monitoring, prediction, and resource optimization.

What is Red Hat Edge Manager?

Edge Manager is Red Hat’s platform to manage devices, clusters, and workloads in edge and multicloud environments, ensuring consistency, security, and scalability.

Main Features

• Large-scale management from a single console: Control thousands of distributed devices, whether they are point-of-sale systems in stores or industrial machinery, enabling deployments and infrastructure from one place.
• Declarative approach: Define the desired state, such as OS versions, host configurations, and applications, and Edge Manager takes care of implementing and maintaining it across the fleet.
• Full lifecycle management: Covers phases from onboarding (initial registration) to device deactivation, including OS, firmware, configuration updates, and workload deployments.
• Enhanced security: Uses secure communications with mTLS (mutual TLS), strong authentication, and precise identity management to prevent spoofing.
• Proactive monitoring and metrics: Configure custom alerts, collect metrics and logs, improving visibility and response on device status.
• Robust agent architecture: Each device runs an agent (flightctl) that periodically communicates with the central console, even with limited connectivity.
• Container workload compatibility: Optimized for modern environments, managing workloads in Podman, Docker, and Kubernetes (like MicroShift). It will also integrate with RHEL Image Mode for OS images.
• Integration with existing Red Hat platforms: Fully integrates with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes, enabling sophisticated automation consistent with other infrastructures.

Main Functions of Red Hat Edge Manager

• Centralized management of edge and cloud environments with unified policies.
• Automated updates and deployments across all nodes.
• AI-driven insights to predict failures and optimize resources before problems arise.
• Integration with OpenShift and virtualization tools, ensuring consistency and operational efficiency.

Use Cases that Transform Infrastructure

• Retail: edge computing for smart kiosks and real-time inventory tracking.
• Industrial IoT: monitoring and automatic adjustment of connected machinery and sensors.
• Healthcare: secure management of critical data and applications from the cloud to local devices.

Key Benefits

• Reduced operating costs thanks to automation and centralized deployment.
• Improved availability and resilience of distributed systems.
• Simplified scalability for hybrid and edge environments.
• Integrated security and compliance, ensuring governance at all levels.

Red Hat Edge Manager and modern virtualization provide an intelligent, secure, and flexible infrastructure that enables businesses to operate seamlessly from the cloud to the edge. At Rootstack, we help organizations implement these solutions to transform their infrastructure into a strategic and scalable asset.

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