Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media that support cross-server containerized application allocation, multi-tenant namespace management, and data layer deployment in an edge environment. To illustrate, containers associated with an application are deployed to edge servers based on a geographic characteristic of the edge server with respect to an edge device receiving services from the application. A common data layer is provided across the edge environment to manage communications between the different containers, and between the application and other applications of the edge environment. Managing the communication is based on namespaces and/or a modality (e.g., private or public) associated with the application. Authentication configuration of the application is used to determine edge resource access for the containers of the application.