About
Eclipse IoT Packages™ provide recipes for combining Eclipse IoT projects, to solve real world IoT problems.
The Eclipse IoT Packages™ project provides a home for use case focused IoT deployments, based on Eclipse IoT technology. It takes the building blocks that the different projects provide, and adds the necessary glue code, needed to create more complete setups. It acts as a showcase of what is possible with Eclipse IoT, and enables you to try it out first hand.
Concept of a package
IoT Packages are a combination of two or more Eclipse IoT projects, combined in an integrated way, leveraging the benefits of each project, to showcase the benefits of their integration.
The goal is to help people understand, what problems the combination of Eclipse IoT projects can solve. And also enable them to try it out themselves, within minutes and on their own infrastructure.
Packages not only provide deployment scripts, but also some description what the benefit of the integrated package is, and some initial, tutorial like steps, to play with the setup, once it is deployed.
Common cloud foundation
Because integrating different software components is already hard enough, the IoT packages project chose Kubernetes as its cloud side deployment platform. Kubernetes is the de-facto standard for containerized deployments in the cloud. And so it makes sense to focus on this platform, and have a common base for all IoT packages.
Helm is a command line tool for managing Kubernetes applications. Helm Charts help define, install and upgrade even the most complex Kubernetes application. Packages consist of one or more Helm Charts which can be used to install the package to a Kubernetes cluster.
A home for glue code
Bringing together different building blocks will leave a few gaps here and there. Some things make only sense in a bigger context.
Hosting glue code, or glue functionality that is required to bring projects together, is also one aspect of the IoT packages projects. Projects are encouraged to integrate as much functionality as possible into their own code base. But whenever there is something which doesn't properly fit into either of the projects, the IoT Packages project can be home to this glue code.
Contributions welcome
Contributions of all kinds are welcome. Adding new packages, enhancing or refining existing ones. Content will be licensed under the EPL. And while we think that open source is the right model, you are more than welcome to fork a package, and add your custom, closed source code functionality, in order to showcase how awesome Eclipse IoT is.
You can read more about contributing on our dedicated contributions guide.