Cluster Provisions Overview

Edge Clusters provide the tools to dynamically grow your cloud infrastructure with physical or virtual resources running on remote cloud service Providers. Edge Clusters support two main use cases:

  • Edge Cloud Computing: To transition from centralized clouds to distributed edge-like cloud environments. You can grow your on-premises cloud with resources at edge data center locations to meet the latency, bandwidth or data regulation needs of your workload.
  • Hybrid Cloud Computing: To address peaks of demand and additional computing power by dynamically growing the underlying physical infrastructure.

Edge Clusters are based on open-source storage and networking technologies. They feature a selection of light-weight components specifically designed for edge locations.

Basic Outline

The following guides describe how to automatically provision Edge Cluster instances:

Hypervisor Compatibility

Edge Clusters are compatible with KVM hypervisors. Compatibility with additional hypervisors, such as LXC, will be added in the future.