The rise of Edge deployments has changed the landscape of problems that enterprises face. The growing importance of zero-touch provisioning at the edge has caused a shift in how downstream workloads are deployed and configured. Low bandwidth and air-gapped scenarios have complicated the existing provisioning workflows, shifting the configuration burden from a post-deployment solution to the base image.
Edge Image Builder (EIB) was created to answer this need. In this episode of Rancher Live, we will be joined by Jason Dobies, who will cover how EIB can customise a base image to include a variety of configurations that will be applied on the first boot, including operating system settings, network configuration, Kubernetes installations, node registrations, and more. The resulting image can then be deployed to any number of machines, both bare metal and virtual, to facilitate true zero-touch provisioning.

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Resources mentioned during the Live episode

• Episode with Nicolas about Project Akri: https://www.youtube.com/live/AbyUUbHR6Oc
• Edge Image Builder GitHub repo: https://github.com/suse-edge/edge-image-builder
• Agenda doc for the CNCF IoT & Edge Working Group: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Yuwy9IO4X6XKq2wLW0pVZn5yHQxlyK7wdYBZBXRWiKI/edit#heading=h.x7eowycdcihh

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