ZERO-CONFIGURATION CLUSTER AND PROVISIONING PIPELINE FOR HETEROGENEOUS COMPUTING NODES

In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a network interface to communicate over a local network, a storage drive, and a processor. The processor is to: connect to the local network via the network interface; detect a plurality of heterogeneous edge computing nodes on the local network; join a cluster of computing nodes on the local network; configure the storage drive to join a shared file system associated with the cluster; configure one or more local hardware resources to join a pool of shared hardware resources associated with the cluster; obtain a plurality of container images for an application configured to execute on the cluster, wherein the plurality of container images are for executing a plurality of containers associated with the application; and execute one or more of the plurality of containers associated with the application.