Introduction

Edge runtimes allow you to host and manage integration runtimes outside your webMethods.io tenant—giving you control over infrastructure while still leveraging cloud capabilities.

Audience

This guide is intended for users familiar with webMethods.io Integration, especially those working with DADA (Develop Anywhere, Deploy Anywhere) capabilities.

Pre-requisite

Access to a webMethods.io Integration tenant with DADA capabilities enabled.

What are Edge runtimes?  

A runtime that is owned by you and hosted externally to your WebMethods Integration tenant.

• We can register Edge Runtime; App Connect runtime, and WebMethods Integration server.

Register edge runtime through UI  :

Step 1: Access Runtime Management

• Log in to your tenant.

• Click Integration Runtime Management in the left panel.

• Click Register Runtime and choose Edge Runtime from the dropdown.

Step 2 : Container registry authentication

• Expand the section and click Generate Credentials.

• This generates login credentials for the container registry.

Note : This option is only available for prod tenants

Step 3 : Define Runtime

• Provide a name and description.

• Choose public or private access based on the choice of the user.

Step 4: Add metadata

Specify the region where you want to deploy the runtime.

Step 5 : Pairing edge runtime

Click Start Pairing and copy the generated Docker command.

Steps 6 : Commands to be performed in edge instance:

• Open a terminal or command prompt on your edge instance.

• Paste and run the Docker command to pull the image and set up the container

Once executed, the container will be created and the image pulled successfully.

Register Edge Runtime through API:

Users can register edge runtime through the public API offered from the platform.

For registering edge runtime through API , refer to Register Edge Runtime through API section https://community.ibm.com/community/user/viewdocument/tech-bytes-iwhi-integration-runti?CommunityKey=82b75916-ed06-4a13-8eb6-0190da9f1bfa&tab=librarydocuments

Configurations under runtimes:

When we navigate inside the integration runtimes it provides various details like 

1. List of project, packages available on design time

2. Connections and their state

3. Configurations like global variables with their values, messaging configuration with their state.

Note: If we are making any change in the global variable value, then this will not be committed to external repository.

4. On each runtime we can see the logs (error logs, server logs) and service usage

5. In integration runtime we also provide the option to download the diagnostic data which contains the agent manifest file and other details.

Extract zip file and open the appliedmanifest file.

This file has multiple sections. To know more about the agent manifest, refer to. https://community.ibm.com/community/user/viewdocument/promotion-of-develop-anywhere-deplo?CommunityKey=82b75916-ed06-4a13-8eb6-0190da9f1bfa 

look for section about “Download the agent manifest file” under Create custom Edge runtime image.