Fluent-bit IoT (MQTT) Input (PAAS)

MQTT is an OASIS standard messaging protocol for the Internet of Things (IoT). It is designed as an extremely lightweight publish/subscribe messaging transport that is ideal for connecting remote devices with a small code footprint and minimal network bandwidth. MQTT today is used in a wide variety of industries, such as automotive, manufacturing, telecommunications, oil and gas, etc.

Running the fluent-bit deployment on Apica Ascent cluster

• Clone the repository to get the kubectl YAML files to start your deployment

git clone https://bitbucket.org/logiqcloud/client-integrations.git

• The files needed are under folder fluent-bit

cd client-integrations/
cd fluentd-bit-mqtt/
ls -la
total 20
-rw-rw-r-- 1 sandesh docker  2030 Mar 29 15:51 fluent-bit-deployment.yaml
-rw-rw-r-- 1 sandesh sandesh 8773 Mar 29 15:55 fluent-bit-config-apica-forward.yml
-rw-rw-r-- 1 sandesh sandesh 2469 Mar 29 15:59 README.md

Fluent Bit to Apica Ascent

The below steps outline on how to create a ConfigMap that will be used by the Fluent Bit Deployment:

kubectl create -f fluent-bit-config-apica-forward.yml

Fluent Bit deployment is ready to be used with Apica Ascent on a regular Kubernetes Cluster, configure the following in deployment fluent-bit-ddeployment.yml. If you do not have your ingest token, you can generate them using apicactl

• name: CLUSTER_ID

  value: "YOUR_CLUSTER_ID"

• name: ASCENT_TOKEN

  value: "YOUR_INGEST_TOKEN"

kubectl create -f fluent-bit-deployment.yml