About Edge sites
Edge is a cluster of Linux servers for accessing and processing data close to where it resides. It helps to connect to data sources and process information within your data landscape.
As Edge and Security administrators, you can use Edge and Collibra Platform to safely connect to your data sources. These data sources can be hosted in an on-premises or cloud environment. It processes the data source information on the Edge site and sends the process results to Collibra Platform.
The ownership of responsibility over the various Edge components is shared between you and Collibra. The diagram below illustrates which components you are responsible for and have control over, and those which belong to Collibra.
Edge for commercial customers or Collibra Platform for Government are Collibra solutions that enables your Collibra Platform to safely connect to your data sources hosted in an on-premises or cloud environment.
Collibra Platform Self-Hosted (CPSH) is a Collibra solution that enables you to install your Collibra Platform on an infrastructure of your choice. For Edge, this means that you are hosting both your Collibra platform and your Edge site. For more information about CPSH, go to our CPSH documentation.
Edge components
Edge consists of three main components:
- An Edge configuration page in Collibra Platform to create and install Edge sites.
- An Edge integration capability repository that resides on the Collibra Platform and contains all capabilities that can run on an Edge site.
- An Edge site that is installed close to a data source in the customer's environment, whether it's in the cloud or on the customer's premises. The Edge site installer includes the Edge CLI tool which enables you to install sites on managed Kubernetes clusters and manage configurations such as vaults and Shared Storage connections.