Tutorial: Configure Cloud Native Edge Infrastructure with K3s, Calico, Portworx

By The New Stack

In the previous part of this series, I introduced the core building blocks of cloud native edge computing stack: K3s, Project Calico, and Portworx.

This tutorial will walk you through the steps involved in installing and configuring this software on an edge cluster, a set of Intel NUC mini PCs running Ubuntu 18.04. This infrastructure can be used for running reliable, scalable, and secure AI and IoT workloads at the edge.

Customizing K3s Installation for Calico

By default, K3s will run with flannel as the Container Networking Interface (CNI), using VXLAN as the default backend. We will replace that with a CNI-compliant Calico.

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