Architecture
The architecture consists of the the platform, the Edge Gateway, container repositories, and connections to your data sources.
The Edge Gateway is available as a
.run
file or a virtual application (vApp) in Open Virtualization format
(.ova
file), which you install on a system in your environment. From one
installation, you can create one or more Edge Gateways.
From the General settings > Connections Edge Gateway page on the platform, you add an Edge Gateway, and then select that Edge Gateway when configuring a data source located in your network or private cloud. Then, you add your data sources, which are located in your environment.
The Edge Gateway is located in your
environment and must be able to access the platform,
the quay.io
repository, IBM Cloud Container Registry icr.io
, and
the hosts of the data sources.
You can have multiple Edge Gateways paired to a single platform account.