Edge Compute Management
Portainer empowers you to deploy applications to multiple remote locations with centralized control.
As digital services continue to expand, the economics of centralization of computing are being challenged. It is becoming more common to use distributed computing services, allowing you to run your applications geographically closer to your users, improving their experience.
Regardless if you are deploying a RetailEdge, TelcoEdge, MedTechEdge, or even IoT solutions such as smart cities and digital signage, all share the same need:
Deploying applications across a fleet of devices, in a safe, controlled, and managed way.
However, as you look to deploy container-based platforms at the edge of your network, you need to consider the complications.
- How do you distribute your application, consistently, to all of these remote clusters?
- Not only that, but how do you manage the remote container runtime environment, be that Docker or Kubernetes?
Portainer is designed as a multi-cluster manager, and that multi-cluster management extends beyond the datacenter, and into edge locations.
- Portainer allows you to centrally deploy your application suite to hundreds of remote locations at the same time, in the same way, and if you want, using GitOps paradigms.
- Additionally, Portainer does not require any special network configuration to securely manage these remote sites, this can be done over carrier-grade NAT network connections to devices in the field.
