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Edge infrastructure preparation

ICOS supports only containerized environments and applications. To onboard edge infrastructure into ICOS, you must choose between the following options:

While this guide does not provide detailed instructions for installing Kubernetes (refer to the kubernetes official documentation) or Docker (refer to the docker official documentation), we offer an example of how to install K3s on a device with a single command below. Depending on your choice, you can execute the corresponding commands for a basic setup that will enable you to continue with the onboarding process.

Kubernetes

One of the easiest ways to setup a basic ICOS-valid Kubernetes environment is via the K3S installation script and the installation of Helm (Kubernetes package manager).

  1. Launch a new K3S cluster: 

    curl -sfL https://get.k3s.io | sh -s - --write-kubeconfig-mode 644 --write-kubeconfig $HOME/.kube/config

  2. Install Helm: 

    curl -fsSL -o get_helm.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/helm/helm/main/scripts/get-helm-3
chmod 700 get_helm.sh
./get_helm.sh
    Any Kubernetes + Helm setup with Kubernetes version 1.19 or higher will work for ICOS. K3S is just simple and quick example.

Docker

You can quickly install the Docker Engine using the commands below (taken from the official Docker documentation for Ubuntu):

  1. Make sure any old installations are removed. 

    for pkg in docker.io docker-doc docker-compose docker-compose-v2 podman-docker containerd runc; do sudo apt-get remove $pkg; done

  2. Set up Docker's apt repository.

**Add Docker's official GPG key:**
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ca-certificates curl
sudo install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings
sudo curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc
sudo chmod a+r /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc

**Add the repository to Apt sources:**
echo \
  "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu \
  $(. /etc/os-release && echo "$VERSION_CODENAME") stable" | \
  sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null
sudo apt-get update
  1. Install the Docker packages
sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin
  1. (Optional) To run docker commands without prefacing them with sudo everytime
sudo groupadd docker
sudo usermod -aG docker $USER
newgrp docker

After this , you can go to the next step : Install the Orchestrator