| CPC G06F 3/0647 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/067 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |

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1. A method comprising:
deploying, on an edge device, one or more agents that process control messages generated from one or more API requests sent by a control plane residing remotely in a cloud computing environment, wherein the one or more API requests are converted into control messages formatted for the one or more agents on the edge device; and
migrating, in response to a first condition, the control plane to the edge device, whereupon the one or more API requests are dispatched directly from the control plane residing on the edge device, bypassing conversion.
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