Enabling Cloud-native IoT Device Management

As IoT proliferates, integrating and managing diverse, resource-constrained IoT devices within higher-level orchestration frameworks is increasingly important, yet Kubernetes' inherent complexity is a barrier to managing such devices. The paper examines the implications of bringing IoT devices into the cloud-native ecosystem and argues for orchestration simplification and a unified approach to application deployment across the Cloud-Edge-IoT continuum. Concretely, it introduces enhancements to the popular Akri IoT management framework that reduce expected resource utilization on edge gateways, taking a first step toward a fully unified, cloud-native infrastructure management solution.