Edge Container Management with Avassa | RHEL Presents Ep. 66

This is one of our partner-focused episodes. Brian Smith and I sit down with Karl, the CTO and cofounder of Avassa, and Fredrik Jansen, a solution architect there, to talk about edge container management. A lot of people jump straight to Kubernetes and OpenShift when they hear “edge,” so we make the case that Red Hat Enterprise Linux itself has a standout story for edge deployments, and that Avassa’s engineering team works closely with Red Hat to round it out.

A few things worth carrying away from the conversation:

• Everyone defines “the edge” differently, so we started there. Karl admitted the term got burned to the ground years ago, so we spent time level-setting before diving into the technology, which is worth doing in any edge conversation.
• RHEL is a real edge platform, not just a host for Kubernetes. The reason we wanted this episode was to highlight that RHEL has a genuinely standout solution for edge deployments on its own.
• This is a true partnership, engineer to engineer. Avassa is a Red Hat partner, and their Edge Enforcer is certified on RHEL, with the two engineering teams collaborating closely rather than just co-marketing.

If your workloads reach out past the data center, this partner conversation is worth an hour.