Modern autonomous edge deployments require strict architectural separation between stateful persistence and stateless ingress execution. In this topology, CORE-MASTER-01 (x1) anchors the dedicated high-IOPS persistent storage tier, isolating write-intensive transactional databases, InfluxDB write-ahead logs (WAL), RabbitMQ durable queues, and enterprise SCADA transaction groups into dedicated volume enclaves.
EDGE-GATEWAY-02 (x2) operates under a strictly enforced stateless paradigm. High-frequency industrial telemetry, edge ingress routing, and visualization pipelines run completely decoupled from local persistent state. By policy-constraining all StatefulSets to the master storage enclave via Kubernetes nodeAffinity, the edge worker executes purely in-memory workloads (Traefik ingress routing, OT protocol translation, and high-framerate kiosk rendering).