Teaching

Seminar on "Rapid IoT apps development using Docker Containers"

as part of PhD studies in Information Engineering at Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria July 2024

Containers are a lightweight approach to virtualization that developers can apply to rapidly develop, test, deploy, and update IoT applications at scale. Docker is an open platform for container-based virtualization. Docker makes it fast and easy to build containers and to deploy them just about anywhere: in a private or public cloud, within a local VM, or on physical hardware including IoT devices. This course will focus on the use of containers for the development and prototyping of applications, with a strong focus on IoT and networking. The approach of the course is mainly practical, presenting the topic of Docker Containers through examples, integrating services and protocols like LoRAWAN, MQTT, REST, time-series database (e.g. InfluxDB), server agents (e.g., Telegraf), and so on.

The pdf version of the slides is available here

The code examples are available here

Programme

Course introduction ()
1.- The basics
2.- Networking with standalone containers
3.- Building an image
4.- The TIG Stack for the processing and visualization of data and Orchestrating execution using “Compose”
overview of REST ()
5.- Building an image of a REST server… and about data persistency
overview of LoRa and LoRaWAN ()
overview of MQTT ()
6.- Containerized MQTT clients
7.- Bridging with MQTT brokers
about MANETS e mesh ()
8.- Demo: OLSR with Docker
9.- Demo: OpenThread with Docker
10.- Demo: Balena and Toit

Disclaimer

This material is made public, so that everyone can enjoy it, obviously without any responsibility for their use. The philosophy is similar to that of the FSF, but without all that fuss about freedom and democracy :)