Edge FAQ

All customers who want to ingest data into Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud benefit from Edge.

Some of the benefits for using Edge are:

• Data is processed in the customer's secure environment and only the process results are sent to Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud.
• Edge can automatically anonymize sensitive profiling data before sending it to Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud.
• Edge can automatically classify the metadata and send the classification results together with the profiling results to Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud.
• Edge enables better profiling performance, because data no longer has to be copied or moved.

Customers can choose between Edge and Jobserver.

The main differences between Edge and Jobserver are the following:

• Edge is based on Kubernetes, a distributed runtime, which means:
  • It can scale out.
  • It offers built in resource management.
  • It has out of the box high availability.
  • It has reliable delivery of results to Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud.
• Edge is a Collibra service compatible with on-premises as well as cloud environments.
• Edge offers continuous delivery of capability types and updates will be installed on a regular basis.
• Edge updates are included in Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud releases.

Jobserver features correspond to Edge capabilities, each one is developed and deployed independently of one another. In the future, we will provide a script for migrating features from Jobserver to Edge where applicable.

When the Edge site is installed in a Cloud environment, it does not use a managed Kubernetes provided by the Cloud vendor, because Kubernetes is already included in the Edge site installation process.

Collibra manually manages the cluster on top of EC2 or similar machines in other platforms. In the first releases, we cannot benefit from seamless integration of various Cloud services offered by those platforms, for example, embedded authentication, auto-scaling and databases.

Currently, we do not support this.

An Edge site is installed in the customer's environment, close to the data source. The Edge site communicates to Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud and other 3rd party systems using an HTTPS connection.

Note The connection between an Edge site and Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud is outbound-only.

Edge is controlled by the customer through local access via the Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud user interface. You can also use local access via the Linux shell for advanced troubleshooting when Edge is unable to connect.

No. Every Edge site belongs and authenticates to only one Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud environment.

Currently, we do not support this.

Edge is a Collibra product that can run on the customer's on-premises or cloud environment. The authentication between the Edge site and Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud is controlled and secured by Collibra. The keys and credentials are generated when you install the Edge site.

Currently, we do not support this.