Overview

Intelligent EdgeFabric (IEF) provides you a complete edge computing solution where cloud applications are extended to the edge. By leveraging edge-cloud synergy, you can manage edge nodes and applications remotely while still processing data nearby. In addition, you can perform O&M in the cloud, including edge node monitoring, edge application monitoring, and log collection.

This document describes how to quickly register an edge node with IEF and deliver applications from IEF to the edge node. In this document, an Elastic Cloud Server (ECS) is used as an example to demonstrate how to register an edge node, manage the edge node, and deliver a containerized application to the edge node.

Any device that can be connected to IEF and meets the requirements described in Constraints can be registered as an edge node. For easy operations, an ECS is used as an example.

Preparations

Purchase an ECS with a public IP address. For details, see the ECS documentation.

For demonstration, you do not need to select high specifications for ECS and public IP address. For example, select 1 vCPUs | 2 GB for ECS specifications, 1 Mbit/s for the IP bandwidth, and CentOS 7.6 for the operating system.
Install the container engine on the ECS.
1. Log in to the ECS as user root.
2. Run the following commands to download and install the container engine:
```
curl -fsSL get.docker.com -o get-docker.sh
sh get-docker.sh
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl restart docker
```