EdgeIQ and Canonical are partnering to transform the way organizations deploy, secure and manage IoT edge devices and the services that run on them. Businesses are looking for ways of leveraging the power of intelligent devices and services, but they are wrestling with the cost and complexity of their management and security. The partnership provides tools to simplify and scale workflows for device fleet operations, data consumption and delivery as well as application orchestration.

What is Canonical Ubuntu Core?

Ubuntu Core is a resource-optimized, containerized version of the Ubuntu Operating System. It is purpose-built for IoT and edge devices. Designed with security in mind, Ubuntu Core provides end-to-end encryption, strict application confinement, and over-the-air (OTA) updates, ensuring that devices are always up-to-date without manual intervention. It offers transactional updates, ensuring that devices remain secure with fail-safe rollback mechanisms. Additionally, Ubuntu Core offers long-term support, making it ideal for mission-critical deployments where reliability and security are paramount. With its lightweight footprint and scalability, Ubuntu Core is the preferred platform for organizations looking to efficiently manage IoT devices and edge applications. Ubuntu Core is built from snaps - secure, dependency-free, containerized packages designed for deploying embedded applications.

What is EdgeIQ Symphony?

EdgeIQ Symphony is a purpose-built workflow platform that addresses foundational Device Operations and Observability needs of Connected Product businesses. The platform provides device and connectivity-agnostic software for important workflows including device lifecycle management, wellness monitoring, diagnostics and remediation, software update and configuration management. EdgeIQ also adds value in the data plane by ingesting, normalizing and delivering device and/or telemetry data. A key component of the Symphony platform is an edge-based compute service called, Coda.

EdgeIQ Coda acts as an intelligent agent that executes commands, software updates and configuration changes. Coda also actively monitors device health and services running at the edge. Coda can take action based on pre-set policies. Coda also facilitates data collection, normalization and delivery to pre-defined edge and cloud services. 

EdgeIQ Coda is now an approved Canonical Snap and is available in the Snapcraft snap store. Operating within Ubuntu’s containerized environment, Coda can monitor the device and even other Snaps running within Ubuntu’s environment at the edge. 

Customer Value - Simplicity, Scale, Security

The combination of EdgeIQ Symphony and Canonical’s Ubuntu Core provides a comprehensive, enterprise-grade solution for connected product businesses. Together, they offer:

• Security and Administration: Within the device, Ubuntu Core’s built-in security features like AppArmor confinement, full disk encryption, secure boot and up to 12 years of security maintenance ensure that devices are always protected. EdgeIQ Symphony provides additional security and administrative controls via its Coda service at the edge, token based security between the edge and cloud and granular role and account-based controls in its cloud service.
• Comprehensive Device Management: Purpose-built workflows for dozens of the most important device and fleet management requirements - onboarding, monitoring, diagnostics, remediation, software updates and configuration management.
• Scalability and Modularity: The use of snaps makes it easy to deploy and manage EdgeIQ Coda and other compute services across diverse hardware setups, simplifying edge and cloud workflows.
  
• Data Management: No need to write and maintain data ingest, normalization and delivery services. With EdgeIQ Symphony and Ubuntu Core, customers gain centralized control of and visibility into data flows while ensuring security and compliance. Customers can bring their own data storage and analytics services. 
  
• Workflow Orchestration: Simplify and automate multistep business processes throughout the entire application ecosystem. Workflows can seamlessly incorporate virtually any other Canonical snap.
  

This joint solution will save organizations thousands of hours of development and DevOps resources. The integrated offering will also accelerate time to production volumes and de-risk important business transformation initiatives.

Learn More and Get Started

Learn more about the partnership and integrated offering on the EdgeIQ-Canonical partner page or from Canonical’s blog. Qualified businesses can also sign up for free trial accounts here. Prospective customers and partners can also contact representatives from either EdgeIQ or Canonical at contact@edgeiq.ai.