How to deploy a service

Edge Orchestrator allows you to manage and control edge resources in real time, including the deployment, update, and management of various services and resources.

Azion provides two ways to manage edge nodes, edge services, resources, and credentials:

• Via Azion API
• Via interface Azion Console or Azion Real-Time Manager (RTM)

Step 1: Create an edge service

To create an edge service, you need to give it an easy-to-remember name.

Step 2: Create a resource

To be able to orchestrate services on your device, you need to configure all the resources needed to install, uninstall, and reload your services.

To create a resource, you need to:

• Give the resource an easy-to-remember name.
• Choose the content-type of the resource. Example: text and shell-script.
• Add the content of the resource.

Step 3: Generate a credential

To be able to manage edge nodes, you must generate the credentials used by the Azion Orchestrator Agent.

To do so:

• Choose a description.
• Add an easy-to-remember name.
• Set the credential as active.

Step 4: Install Edge Orchestrator Agent

With the credentials created:

• Download and install the Edge Orchestrator agent with the recently created credentials.

Step 5: Authorize an edge node

With the Edge Orchestrator Agent installed on the device:

• Authorize the edge node.

Step 6: Bind an edge service to an edge node

Now, with the edge node created and authorized, you must bind it with an edge service to be deployed onto the edge node.

• Create a relation between edge service and edge node.

Once this relation is in place, when an update is triggered on the edge services, it’ll be deployed to all nodes related to this service in particular.