Want to deploy on Kubernetes instead?

Remote and Kubernetes are the two control plane deployment models. This guide deploys a remote control plane on a single Linux host over SSH. For Kubernetes, start at Kubernetes - Prepare a cluster.

Remote host - deploy control plane

Every edge compute network starts with a control plane that manages cluster resources.

In this guide, the control plane runs a single Controller instance on a remote host.

YAML resources for potctl

Procedures below use YAML that potctl applies. Field reference: Control plane YAML reference.

Authentication

Set auth.mode: embedded in your control plane YAML. See Embedded OIDC for bootstrap credentials and console URLs.

Production TLS

For production, enable Controller HTTPS on remote controllers (controllers[].https or spec.tls). Configure Router and NATS site and local CAs when you use custom trust anchors. See Securing the cluster (TLS sections).

Deploy a control plane on a remote host

Create controlplane.yaml:

controlplane.yaml

---
apiVersion: datasance.com/v3
kind: ControlPlane
metadata:
  name: albatros
spec:
  iofogUser:
    name: Foo
    surname: Bar
    email: [email protected]
    password: iht234g9afhe
  controller:
    publicUrl: http://<controller-ip>:51121
    consoleUrl: http://<controller-ip>
    package:
      image: ghcr.io/datasance/controller:v3.8.0
  auth:
    mode: embedded
    bootstrap:
      username: admin
      password: LocalTest12!
  systemMicroservices:
    router:
      amd64: ghcr.io/datasance/router:3.8.0
      arm64: ghcr.io/datasance/router:3.8.0
      riscv64: ghcr.io/datasance/router:3.8.0
      arm: ghcr.io/datasance/router:3.8.0
    nats:
      amd64: ghcr.io/datasance/nats:2.14.3
      arm64: ghcr.io/datasance/nats:2.14.3
      riscv64: ghcr.io/datasance/nats:2.14.3
      arm: ghcr.io/datasance/nats:2.14.3
  events:
    auditEnabled: true
    retentionDays: 14
    captureIpAddress: true
  nats:
    enabled: true
  controllers:
  - name: alpaca-1
    host: <controller-ip-for-ssh>
    ssh:
      user: bar
      keyFile: ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Edit host, ssh.user, and ssh.keyFile for your remote host. Set systemMicroservices architecture keys to match the host CPU.

Deploy:

potctl deploy -f controlplane.yaml

Verify the deployment

potctl get controllers

potctl describe controller alpaca-1

potctl describe controlplane

Next step

With the control plane running, go to Set up Edgelet nodes to provision Edgelet v1.0.0 on your edge hosts.

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