IoT Gateway NG

Woking on opening an internal project to the public.

Video Demo

• Networking overview (Zerotier + bridged network)

• Povisioning: How to deploy base image (netboot) + Base system (af)

• Centralized and automated management: Ansible + Ansible Forms

• Backup image and restore (netboot)

• Rescue processes (netboot live image + ssh)

• Basic system management (OpenWRT UI + ttyd + ssh)

• Stacks: containers management (Docker + GitOps + Dockge)

• Observability: Grafana Alloy + Global Grafana (logs and metrics, supported OTel)

• Monitoring: Uptime Kuma + Global Grafana

• Backup: Duplicati + Telegraf + InfluxDB + Grafana

• MQTT: Mosquitto + EMQX

• Automation: Node-RED (Git based flows)

• Development base image: Ansible creation base image

Features

• iPXE based installation (netboot using HTTP and clonezilla)
• Centralized deployment (Ansible Forms + GitOps)
• GIT + configuration management (Notion configs as CMDB) - Ansible Forms link and Ansible forms JSON config file
• Applications with web interfaces for managementps
  • Dockge, container management
  • GLPI agent, inventory
  • Grafana Alloy, agent for observability and centralized logs
  • Uptime Kuma (Kuma + Autokuma), monitoring integrated with observability
  • Zerotier, VPN
  • Duplicati, backup
    • uses Telegraf for getting telemetry and injecting it into InfluxDB
  • Mosquitto, MQTT broker bidirectional integration with central EMQX
  • Node-RED, IoT automation and data flows. Git based stack and Git based config and flows
  • VSCode, in-browser development
• Applications documentation synchoronized with Notion (README.md -> Notion using GIT hooks)
• Grafana dashboards for monitoring and centralized alarms
  • Monitoring dashboards (Grafana MIMIR)
  • Centralized logs (Grafana LOKI) - system and container logs
  • Backup status
  • Centralized alarms
• Web based system management (OpenWRT based)
  • Docker containers
  • Firewall and NAT
  • System processes
  • Real Time graphs of system resources
  • NTP server and client
  • DNS server and forwarder
  • DHCP server and client
  • Package manager
  • Startup services
  • Cron jobs

Users

• System Administrators are the users of this project
• Developers/Contributors are the ones that evolve the project

Brainstorming

• squashfs github workflow
• wireguard
• grub-brts -> recuperar snapshots fallados de sistema
• Set-up public netboot
• Cronicle (central crontab management)
• Web terminal
• Composecraft
• Coolify, Dokploy, Convex, or similar for central deployment
• Kestra, or similar for central automation
• Integrate all services behind NGINX and manage it with NGINX UI: https://github.com/0xJacky/nginx-ui
• New theme for OpenWRT: Argon - https://github.com/jerrykuku/luci-theme-argon
• Komodo
• Projects, apps, nodes, etc. Central management inspiration at Flowfuse (screenshots), Portainer, Dockge, Komodo, Rancher. n-tiers POV is an important point for management.
• Important pendnigs TBD: distributed storage, git centra config management, maybe something else.

Reference

Related projects

• https://meta-os.eu/

Uptime Kuma

• https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma
• https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma/wiki
• https://github.com/BigBoot/AutoKuma/tree/master
• https://github.com/lucasheld/uptime-kuma-api
• https://uptime-kuma-api.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
• https://github.com/carlbomsdata/uptime-kuma-agent
• https://github.com/jmclaren7/uptime-kuma-push
• https://blog.programster.org/uptime-kuma-configure-push-monitor