ELIOT R6 - IoT Gateway Release Notes

ELIOT R6 - IoT Gateway Release Notes

Release Notes for ELIOT IoT Gateway Blueprint

Summary

In ELIOT - IoT Gateway Blueprint Release 6.0, providing One Click Deployment (OCD) from Deployment node to automate installation, k8s based is provided on the IoTgateway node, Hawkbit for software rolling updates on Iot Gateway ,  Edge Gallery and services are added. (Refer to Features Table)

 

In this release, BP has been upgrade from EdgeGallery version 1.1 to version 1.5.1. 

EdgeGallery in version 1.5.1 has been added following new features.

  • Profile Management of southbound IoT devices

  • Added image file management service to solve the problem of image file sharing between EdgeGallery central node modules

  • Edgegallery unified portal for Developer, Appstore and MECM.

  • Application incubation process optimisation in developer portal

  • All modules support data persistence capability

What is released

Components of the release 

OCD (One Click Deployment) Node Components

  • Ansible-playbook based single command for ELIOT environment installation.

Master Node Components 

  • MECM

  • Appstore

  • Developer Platform

  • Hawkbit

  • Portal

EDGE Node Components

  • MEP Agent

  • MEP Server

  • Applcm (MEPM)

  • EdgeX

  • RabbitMQ

  • OPC-UA 

Dependencies of the release (upstream version, patches)

 

S. No

Software

Version

Remarks

 

1.

Edge Gallery

1.5.1

 

 

2.

Docker

18.09+

 

 

3.

Kubernetes

1.18.7

 

 

4.

EdgeX

Edinburgh

This old version used due to k8s deployment

 

5.

OPC-UA

Geneva

 

 

 

Upgrade Procedures

The ELIOT Cluster installed using Release 6.0 packages has to be uninstalled using uninstall scripts provided in the Release 5.0 .

After uninstall need to execute the Ansbile command using OCD.  Details given in Installation Document.

Release Data

New Features 

#

Feature

Category

Description

1

One Click Deployment

Platform Feature

OCD scripts optimisations for easier up gradation of  EdgeGallery versions.

2

Edge Gallery

Platform Feature

upgrade EdgeGallery upstream from 1.1 to 1.5.1

Functionality changes

Not Applicable

Software Version Changes

#

Name

Category

Description

1.

Kubernetes 

Software Enhancement

Version upgraded from 1.17.2 to 1.18

Enhancements

Not Applicable

Version change

1.0.0

Module version changes

N/A

Document Version Changes

 

Version No.

Date

Author

Rationale

0.1

20-August-2021

ELIOT Blueprint Team

First Draft

 

 

 

 

Deliverable

Software Deliverable

Software is available in  https://gerrit.akraino.org/r/admin/repos/eliot

Documentation Deliverable

Fixed Issues and Bugs

N/A

Known Limitations, Issues and Workarounds

System Limitations

N/A

Known Issues

N/A