Cloud Native at the Far(m) Edge: Running Kubernetes and AI... Mauro Morales & Jordan Karapanagiotis

This talk, presented by Mauro Morales from Spectro Cloud and Jordan Karapanagiotis from Aurea Imaging, explores how cloud-native technologies can empower farmers by enabling AI applications directly on agricultural machinery. The speakers discuss the integration of AI inference on devices mounted on tractors, leveraging onboard sensors and GPUs to enhance precision agriculture through real-time analysis. They address the challenges of deploying cloud-native workloads in remote, often disconnected environments, and showcase their collaboration with the CNCF Sandbox project Kairos to create a production platform that utilizes container images for device booting. This innovative system replaces traditional provisioning methods with a declarative configuration and seamless over-the-air updates, demonstrating the potential of cloud-native and AI in agriculture.