Red Hat Tech Exchange 2023
During the Red Hat Tech Exchange 2023 that took place in Dublin, I presented a Lab with a group of colleagues. The lab is named “From the ESP32 to the OpenShift cluster: discover what Red Hat can offer for the Edge computing!”.
Through the common theme of “shipment tracking”, this lab helps you understand what Red Hat can offer for the Edge computing.
In this lab, you are at the head of a “parcel shipment hub” and you deploys everything needed to:
- read the parcel RFID (using arduino and ESP32),
- send data to a MQTT broker over wifi,
- transform those data using Camel-K
- and send relevant events to the headquarter for reporting.
An application at the headquarter displays the parcels moving from one hub to another in realtime.
The whole room had a lot of fun!
If you want to play with the Lab, all the code is under the RHTE-2023-Edge-Lab organization.
- rhte-gitops: the Kubernetes manifests to deploy the Lab on OpenShift using ArgoCD
- worldmap-front: the frontend that shows shipments on a worldmap
- camel-kafka-enricher: a Camel Quarkus app that enriches events from the warehouses with metadata and merges them in a single topic
- kafka-streams-shipments: a Quarkus app that uses Kafka Streams to transform location event (a parcel has been seen at this location) to shipment events (a parcel has moved from this location to this location)
- parcel-tracker-arduino: the firmware of the ESP8266 to scan parcels using RFID
The Lab instructions are here.