Cloud Native IoT Development

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Just in time for KubeCon 2017 and CloudNativeCon 2017, Benjamin Cabe, a member of the Eclipse Foundation and an avid IoT maker has published a very interesting blog post on how to develop IoT in a cloud-native way.

In his hands-on post he shows an end-to-end IoT solution for power consumption monitoring deployed on OpenShift. The services include:

• IoT connectivity layer — getting telemetry data into a backend system is a challenge in itself, he shows how Eclipse Hono can help.
• Device data simulator — as a way to illustrate how cloud native can help your application scale, he has simulators running in the OpenShift cluster.
• Monitoring dashboards — Benjamin shows how to leverage Grafana to visualize the data coming into the cluster.
• End-user application —see how to develop a simple web application to visualize the instant power consumption information.
• Cloud IDE — Benjamin uses Eclipse Che to develop the web application mentioned above.

Read the full blog on Benjamin’s site: https://blog.benjamin-cabe.com/2017/12/08/cloud-native-iot-development-in-practice