Bringing Cloud Native to the Edge
Kubernetes 1.21 & Edge Computing - Bringing Cloud Native to the Edge The release of Kubernetes 1.21 marked a significant milestone in the journey toward truly distributed computing. As organizations began deploying applications not just in centralized cloud environments but at edge locations closer to users and data sources, Kubernetes evolved to meet these new challenges. The pandemic accelerated the need for edge computing as organizations required low-latency processing for remote work, IoT devices, and real-time applications. Kubernetes 1.21 brought features that made edge deployments practical and manageable. yaml # Lightweight edge deployment apiVersion: apps/v1 kind: Deployment metadata: name: edge-processor labels: deployment-target: edge spec: replicas: 1 # Single replica for resource-constrained edge selector: matchLabels: app: edge-processor ...