CNCF-hosted Co-located Events North America 2024

At the edge, thousands of sensors publish data. Servers on the edge must discover these devices and then continually process new data from them. Akri and SpinKube are open source projects that address these challenges, providing a seamless experience for connecting IoT devices to Kubernetes clusters at the edge. Akri discovers these devices and automatically deploys Pods to consume their data. SpinKube runs serverless WebAssembly (Wasm) applications as Pods on Kubernetes. Since Wasm has small binary sizes and sub-millisecond start up times, it's the ideal application type for resource constrained servers at the edge. This presentation will conclude with a demo of using Akri to discover MQTT-based devices and automatically deploy Wasm applications to the cluster. The deployed applications will be event-driven and triggered by new MQTT messages, ensuring precise resource usage. By the end of the talk, you'll have the tools to run efficient data processing applications at the edge.