Kubeedge brief

References

https://docs.kubeedge.io/en/latest/
https://github.com/kubeedge/kubeedge/tree/master/docs

Architecture

Edged: an agent that runs on edge nodes and manages containerized applications.
EdgeHub: a web socket client responsible for interacting with Cloud Service for edge computing (like Edge Controller as in the KubeEdge Architecture). This includes syncing cloud-side resource updates to the edge and reporting edge-side host and device status changes to the cloud.
CloudHub: A web socket server responsible for watching changes at the cloud side, caching and sending messages to EdgeHub.
EdgeController: an extended kubernetes controller which manages edge nodes and pods metadata so that the data can be targeted to a specific edge node.
EventBus: an MQTT client to interact with MQTT servers (mosquitto), offering publish and subscribe capabilities to other components.
DeviceTwin: responsible for storing device status and syncing device status to the cloud. It also provides query interfaces for applications.
MetaManager: the message processor between edged and edgehub. It is also responsible for storing/retrieving metadata to/from a lightweight database (SQLite).

Advantages

• Remote edge node in LAN could connect to the server and be controlled.

IOT part architecture

设备控制管理主要分为三大模块：
Device controller， device twin 和mapper。
Device controller是KubeEdge云端组件，功能是设备管理。在这里，它使用Kubernetes CRD来描述设备定义和设备状态，并通过编辑CRD对设备进行配置，通过更新CRD让用户得到设备状态。
Device Twin模块的功能是存储来自Mapper的设备状态和数据值，并转发device controller和Mapper之间的消息。
Mapper是KubeEdge和设备之间的接口，它能够设置设备寄存器，获得寄存器的值，获取并上报设备状态。
用户使用设备系统时首先定义设备模型和设备实例的CRD，之后device controller会根据CRD生成一个configmap。Mapper启动时会挂载这个configmap，根据configmap配置和周期性上报需要的寄存器值。当用户更新CRD时，device controller会往下发送更新部分的配置， Mapper收到后处理相应变化。

Device controller

Device controller 数据流程，里面包括的整条device链上所有的组件。当初始化时，device controller监听API server关于device/modle CRD变化，eventbus向Mqtt server订阅device数据和状态，Mapper向Mqtt server订阅配置变化。Device controller得到配置变化时往下通过cloudhub和edgehub传给device twin，device twin存储后发布信息，mapper收到后配置设备并返回更新后的值。Eventbus收到后转给device twin存储后向上返回给device controller，device controller更新crd。

Mapper

更多信息可以参考：
https://github.com/kubeedge/kubeedge/blob/master/docs/proposals/mapper-design-v2.md
https://github.com/kubeedge/mappers-go