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World Congress 2025 • Aug 20, 2025 • Session details

From Factory Floor to Kubernetes Core: Building an Edge Platform One Step at a Time

Dean Oren , Stefan Belsch

Schwarz Group faced a critical challenge: securely bridging legacy industrial machinery with modern cloud environments. Discover how they architected a GitOps-driven Kubernetes edge platform to run local AI.

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Industrial context and operational scale across manufacturing facilities

Managing vast manufacturing and retail operations requires a resilient digital backbone to support massive production lines.

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Origins of the edge connectivity platform using Kubernetes

The growing need for secure, highly available machine integration drove the transition to a robust Kubernetes-based platform.

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Core principles for building sustainable edge infrastructure topologies

A centralized hub-and-spoke model paired with GitOps methodologies ensures reliable scaling of remote factory devices.

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Evolving and automating infrastructure deployment pipelines at scale

Transitioning from manual deployment scripts to structured CI/CD pipelines significantly accelerates new infrastructure onboarding.

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Strategic tool selection and the evolution of technology stacks

Implementing architectural decision records and utilizing an open-source first strategy enables highly adaptable platform components.

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High-level platform architecture and distributed edge node design

Centralized control planes deployed on vSphere connect dynamically to lightweight k3s Kubernetes edge clusters.

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Bootstrapping infrastructure pipelines and continuous delivery security protocols

Automated pipeline workflows securely manage cluster secrets and orchestrate continuous application delivery across various endpoints.

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Deploying AI-driven foreign object detection in manufacturing environments

Deploying an edge AI application via Kubernetes enables real-time anomaly detection on continuous factory conveyor belts.

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Orchestrating automated edge device provisioning and application delivery

Ephemeral provisioning workflows fully automate edge environment setups and application deployments by monitoring connected Git repositories.

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Future architectural roadmaps for platform automation and self-service workflows

Building hierarchical control planes and self-service interfaces simplifies infrastructure onboarding for autonomous business-unit deployments.

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Adapting Kubernetes deployment patterns for heterogeneous edge device fleets

Thomas Weinschenk Thomas Weinschenk · WWC Europe 2026

1:54 min

Speaker background and open source Kubernetes edge computing projects

Gaurav Gahlot Gaurav Gahlot · WWC Europe 2026

1:16 min

Continuous deployment to edge devices using Argo CD

Daniel Brintzinger Daniel Brintzinger · WWC 2025

2:48 min

Challenges of application edge deployment and containers

Daniel Brintzinger Daniel Brintzinger · WWC 2025

1:50 min

Overview of the Edge AI ecosystem and tech stack

Maxim Salnikov Maxim Salnikov · WWC 2025

1:09 min

Deploying algorithms and AI models to edge production

Irina Terekhova Irina Terekhova · WWC Europe 2026

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