Packet Labs IoT workshop

This workshop deploys compute, storage, networking, and an IoT application to Packet.com.

Conceptual architecture

Diagram:

TBD via https://draw.io/

Component parts:

• Kubernetes - provisioned with Terraform
• MQTT Broker - emitter.io
• Compute platform - OpenFaaS
• MQTT Connector - openfaas-incubator/mqtt-connector
• Database/storage - Postgresql

Getting started

Everything you need to deploy this workshop is available in this repository.

1) Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/packet-labs/iot

2) Create a bare-metal Kubernetes cluster

You will need to install Terraform for this step.

• Set your Packet API and project ID in the .tf files in /k8s.

• Enter the k8s folder and apply the terraform plan.

3) Install Postgres via KubeDB and helm

You will need to install helm for this step.

• Install postgresql

4) Add the MQTT Broker (Emitter.io)

• Install emitter

More info at: https://emitter.io

• Navigate to http://IP:port/keygen where IP is the address of your Emitter.io deployment

• Generate a channel key for the topic drone-position

You'll need this key to configure the OpenFaaS Connector

5) Install OpenFaaS

• Install openfaas to provide compute and events

• Deploy the OpenFaaS services for the application

6) Add the OpenFaaS MQTT-Connector

The MQTT-Connector is used to trigger functions and services in response to messages generated by the event source.

The topic is drone-position.

git clone https://github.com/openfaas-incubator/mqtt-connector
cd mqtt-connector

Edit chart/mqtt-connector/values.yaml and update the CHANNEL_KEY value from the step above.

Apply the changes:

cd mqtt-connector/chart/

helm template -n openfaas --namespace openfaas mqtt-connector/ --values mqtt
-connector/values.yaml | kubectl apply -f -

TBD/backlog

• Deploy business insights software

• Create Python or Node app to publish generated MQTT data

• Create Postgesql schema asset for drone geo-location data

• Create OpenFaaS Function: insert row (using node12 template)

• Create OpenFaaS service for viewing data on mapbox (using node12 template)

• Create OpenFaaS Function: Query drone positions for mapbox (using node12 template)

Suggested schema ('drone'):

• ID
• Name
• Altitude
• GPS Latitude
• GPS Longitude
• Velocity
• Battery
• Temperature