Containers for edge computing
The security fear along with the lack of visibility and controllability is being touted as the widely articulated and accepted drawback of cloud computing. Private clouds and cloudlets are the viable options. Yet, they too face certain limitations. However, the recent phenomenon of edge or fog computing has been pronounced as the most successful computing paradigm for surmounting all the cloud weaknesses.
Edge computing is all about shifting the data processing and storage from the centralized locations (cloud) to the distributed and decentralized environments (local). This means that by bringing in compute, network, and storage competencies closer to the users, the Quality of Service (QoS) attributes / the NFRs ...
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