
IoT edge development and deployment with containers through OpenShift: Part 2
In the first part of this series, we saw how effective a platform as a service (PaaS) such as Red Hat OpenShift is for developing IoT edge applications and distributing them to remote sites, thanks to containers and Red Hat Ansible Automation technologies.
Usually, we think about IoT applications as something specially designed for low power devices with limited capabilities. IoT devices might use a different CPU architectures or platform. For this reason, we tend to use completely different technologies for IoT application development than for services that run in a data center.
In part two, we explore some techniques that allow you to build and test contains for alternate architectures such as ARM64 on an x86_64 host. The goal we are working towards is to enable you to use the same language, framework, and development tools for code that runs in your datacenter or all the way out to IoT edge devices. In this article, I’ll show building and running an AArch64 container image on an x86_64 host and then building an RPI3 image to run it on physical hardware using Fedora and Podman.
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