Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift at the edge with Ceph
Red Hat News, Friday, April 4th, 2025
With the rise of portable devices, IoT, and other distributed small factor devices, edge computing has become a key domain for many enterprises.
Edge computing brings application infrastructure from centralized data centers out to the network edge, as close to the consumer as possible to provide low latency and near real-time processing. This use case stretches beyond telecommunications into healthcare, energy, retail, remote offices, and more.
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 introduced an edge solution called distributed compute nodes (DCN). This allows customers to deploy computing resources (compute nodes) close to consumer devices, while centralising the control plane in a more traditional datacenter, such as a national or regional site.