AWS Public Sector Blog
Author: John Trollinger
John Trollinger is a solutions architect for the Department of Defense at Amazon Web Services (AWS). John has over 20 years of IT experience with over 15 years supporting the DoD and intelligence community. His areas of interest are Edge computing, containers, and cloud security. In his spare time, John enjoys spending time with his family, flying, and competing in triathlons.
Managing Edge of the Edge deployments with Rancher
To help support DIL environments, Amazon Web Services (AWS) created the Snow family of products to include the AWS Snowcone and AWS Snowball devices. The Snow family moves data processing and analysis as close as necessary to where data is created in order to deliver intelligent, real-time responsiveness and streamline the amount of data transferred. To address the challenges of edge of the edge computing, we use the Snowball Edge as a central management hub and a Snowcone as an outer edge device. This how-to shows how to use Rancher as a centralized Kubernetes management tool installed on a Snowball, which has been set up to manage a single-node Kubernetes cluster on a Snowcone. This configuration allows us to fully manage the containers running on one or more Snowcones from the Snowball itself.