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The challenges with Edge are management and cost. IoT and Edge computing still require centralized data storage and data management. Kubernetes/K8s are at the network edge in those environments. Thousands of nodes are simply unmanageable without an orchestrator like Kubernetes. Kubernetes is fueling momentum because the central manageability has gotten noticeably better over the past few years. Today organizations find that for performance reasons it’s better to do given functions in situ, rather than centrally.