In yesterday's call I took brief notes on the Eclipse IoT integration topic, I am sharing them here for reference. Sounds like it was a productive F2F meet up in Berlin.
Call to action - Ease of adoption / Easier to try out Eclipse IoT technologies together
Observation - There are two stacks today that we could attract developers to adopt:
- Hono, Ditto and hawkBit
- Kura and Kapua
Question: Can these two stacks be characterized by the number or order of magnitude of devices they scale to?
Idea - Define IoT stack packages that can easily be deployed in to a Kubernetes cluster for demo and trial purposes (not for scale or production).
Approach -
- Create Docker containers for the stack components and Helm Charts for ease of orchestration and deployment
- Organize the work to maintain and release the Helm Charts in to a new project at iot.eclipse.org
- Project decides exactly which release levels of the packages to include
- Provide documentation i) a getting started guide and ii) primer to explain the use case and rationale for using the packages together as a stack
- Need a Kubernetes cluster with enough capacity to provide good performance. Can the Foundation provide or is this a reason to start charging for joining the working group?
Question - What about other projects that provide useful capabilities like Mosquitto and Paho? How do they participate in the stack?
Thanks ... Paul