EdgeX Foundry Simplifies Deployment with the Latest Hanoi Release

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EdgeX Foundry, a project under the LF Edge umbrella organization within the Linux Foundation, announced the “Hanoi” release that helps make IoT deployment easier as well as the launch of new ecosystem resources.

The Hanoi Release

EdgeX Foundry’s Hanoi release is the seventh consecutive semi-annual release and has a number of features including simplified deployment, improved performance and scalability testing, and launch of Command Line Interface (CLI).  Hanoi also incorporates the first collection of new, platform-wide micro service APIs that allow adopters to get a feel for what’s coming with EdgeX 2.0 in the spring.

Key features include:

  • Launch of the CLI: allows developers and users to issue a variety of EdgeX API calls to its services using terminal commands for easier scripting of tasks.
  • Improved edge data tagging: developers can tag the data coming from a variety of edges so that everything is organized and configured by a preferred process that ensures the location of data can be found more quickly and efficiently.
  • Easier and simplified deployment: users will find that EdgeX now has a Compose file “make” capability that allows users to more easily customize their file without a lot of manual editing.
  • Improved performance and scalability testing: Adopters can now calculate what a large-scale deployment with EdgeX would look-like and put it in their roadmap plans.  Hanoi brings the ability to provide guidance around EdgeX scaling as the amount of data is pushed through the system, or how many devices of particular types you can hang on an instance of EdgeX.

EdgeX Foundry has a history of working closely with other LF Edge projects including Akraino, Home Edge, EVE and Open Horizon.  With the Hanoi release, EdgeX has provided a sample service to export data from EdgeX to Fledge, an industrial IoT framework that focuses on critical operations, predictive maintenance, situational awareness and safety.  This allows EdgeX device connectors and capabilities to be used with Fledge instances.  Conversely, with its next release, Fledge intends to provide a device service to allow Fledge instances to feed EdgeX instances.

Moving Forward

The next step for EdgeX Foundry is the “Ireland” release, tentatively scheduled for spring 2021.  Ireland will include a number of significant changes, including; EdgeX’s new V2 API set and V2 API testing, additional security improvements, and easier transition/communication between device services to message application services directly (allowing for better quality of service when needed and bypassing persistence when not needed).

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