Red Hat, Inc. announced the general availability of Red Hat Device Edge. Red Hat Device Edge provides a consistent platform designed for resource-constrained environments which require small form factor compute at the device edge, including Internet of Things (IoT) gateways, industrial controllers, smart displays, point of sales terminals, vending machines, robots and more. Red Hat Device Edge aggregates an enterprise-ready and supported distribution of the Red Hat-led open source community project MicroShift (a lightweight Kubernetes project derived from the edge capabilities of Red Hat OpenShift) along with an edge-optimized operating system built from Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

With general availability, Red Hat Device Edge now also includes Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform for more consistent Day 1 and Day 2 management of hundreds to thousands of sites and devices. Effectively managing workloads at the edge increases the importance of consistent and reliable automation. The general availability of Red Hat Device edge adds the power of Ansible Automation Platform to Red Hat Device Edge, adding the power of IT automation.

Red Hat Device Edge now offers: More predictability and repeatability in automating edge workloads; Standardized and repeatable connectivity configurations, policies and deployments to help maintain system health and integrity; Enhanced security and compliance posture at the edge with automated management and maintenance, including patents, updates and upgrades; Lowered barriers to entry for IT and OT (operational technology) teams, with automation tooling making it possible to manage edge workloads and devices with little to no IT specialty skills; The ability to configure and audit the devices and services needed like networking, Wi-Fi, DNS, SSL certificates and the applications running on the devices. Red Hat Device Edge is now generally available with full support.