1) What is EdgeView
EdgeView is a tool to allow user to interact with the remote edge devices and applications. EdgeView is implemented as a Docker container. The EdgeView container on the remote device serves as a 'server' function for EdgeView, and the same container on the user laptop serves as a 'client' function. The EdgeView client and server hops through the Dispatcher to communicate to each other. For more detail description of the EdgeView, see the EdgeView Architecture document. EVE has EdgeView support since release 8.5.0.
2) Where to get EdgeView
EdgeView is built as a Docker container, it can be pulled from docker registry with 'lfedge/eve-edgeview'. The source code is at EVE repository in pkg/edgeviw.
3) How do I start EdgeView
4) What is EdgeView Security Mechanism
5) Why not just use SSH
SSH works fine if the user laptop and the edge device are in the same network, either they are all on the Internet or all in a private VPN network. If the edge device is behind NAT, firewall, LTE or proxy server, and the user's laptop is not, then SSH will not work. Also in the case of the user's laptop and the device belong to the same network, if multiple users want to access the device, they all need to share the private SSH key (or add multiple public keys onto the device) which sometimes is not desirable.