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Deployment, as well as other tasks such as starting and stopping the cluster, is coordinated through a set of Ansible playbooks. (Ansible playbooks are a system used by the Ansible tool for describing the desired state of a system. In many ways they are similar to shell scripts. For more details see the Ansible documentation.) The playbooks are run by the deploy node and build node, and they execute commands on the deploy node, the master node, the build node, and in some cases on the edge nodes. Once the nodes are set up, most activity is carried out by Kubernetes. Kubernetes is configured by the playbooks and told to start or stop services on the edge nodes. These services are run in containers, and the images for these containers are stored in a local Docker registry. There are containers for the Kubernetes components themselves, plus Flannel (a component which provides networking inside the Kubernetes cluster), EdgeX Foundry services, and four custom services (sync-app and app and image-app and device-lora and device-camera) built using the EdgeX SDKs.

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In addition, if the master node is not the same as the deploy node, remove the line connection: local wherever it follows hosts: master in the playbooks in deploy/playbook, and change the line localhost: wherever it flollows master: in the hosts in deploy/playbook to IP address or hostname of the master node.

In the file master.yml in the deploy/playbook/group_vars/all directory, set the master_ip value to the IP address of the master node. Note that this is required even if the master node is the same as the deploy node.

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If the version of Kubernetes or Flannel changes you will need to populate the registry with updated images using the above command again. Note that you can force Kubernetes to use a specific patch version by editing the deploy/playbook/k8s/config.yml file and adding the line kubernetesVersion: v1.22.79 (with the version you require) under the the kind: ClusterConfiguration line, and running the master_install.yml playbook again. (You can also make the same change to ~/.lfedge/config.yml directly to avoid having to run master_install.yml again.)

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sudo systemctl disable nvzramconfig.service

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Build Node

In the test installation, the build node is a VM running on a x86 PC, with Ubuntu Linux 20.04 installed. In addition, the Ansible tool must be installed. The Ansible tool provided in the Ubuntu software repository is a slightly older version which needs to be upgraded, refer to Ansible Installation Guide to install the latest version. But before running that playbook you need to configure a few things described in the section below.

The playbooks for use on the build node are stored in the cicd/playbook directory of the source repository. These playbooks refer to other files in the source code, so the entire directory tree should be copied onto the deploy node. The easiest way to do this is by cloning the git repository directly as shown below:

git clone repository-url

Note, using the --depth=1 option can save some disk space if you don't need to modify the source code.

The git command will create a directory in the directory where it is run named after the repository. Inside the new directory will be the cicd/playbook directory. Unless noted otherwise, the commands below should be run in that directory.

Node Configuration

Before running the setup_build.yml playbook, if you use a different hostname of the master node, update the entry for the master node's host.

all:
  hosts:
    localhost:
    arm-build:
      ansible_host: erc01
      ansible_user: edge
      ansible_ssh_private_key_file: ~/.ssh/edge
      ansible_become_password: password
  children:
    master:
      hosts:
        sdt-master:

In addition, if the master node is not the same as the deploy node, remove the line connection: local wherever it follows hosts: master in the playbooks in deploy/playbook, and change the line localhost: wherever it flollows master: in the hosts in deploy/playbook to IP address or hostname of the master node.

In the file master.yml in the deploy/playbook/group_vars/all directory, set the master_ip value to the IP address of the master node. Note that this is required even if the master node is the same as the deploy node.

master_ip: 192.168.2.16

Building the Custom Services

At this time, images for the four custom services, sync-app and image-app and device-lora and device-camera, need to be built from source and pushed to the private Docker registry. (In the future these images should be available on Docker Hub or another public registry.) Use the following playbooks from the cicd/playbook directory on the deploy node to do so.

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• CPS: Cyber-Physical System
• MQTT: A lightweight, publish-subscribe network protocol designed for connecting remote devices, especially when there are bandwidth constraints. (MQTT is not an acronym.)