Agent YAML Specification

Agents are components of an ECN which run on edge nodes. They communicate with Controllers to allow your edge nodes to host Microservices.

apiVersion: iofog.org/v2
kind: Agent
metadata:
  name: meerkat
  namespace: default
spec:
  host: 30.40.50.6
  ssh:
    user: foo
    keyFile: ~/.ssh/id_rsa
    port: 22
  config:
    description: agent running on VM
    latitude: 46.204391
    longitude: 6.143158
    agentType: auto
    dockerUrl: unix:///var/run/docker.sock
    diskLimit: 50
    diskDirectory: /var/lib/iofog-agent/
    memoryLimit: 4096
    cpuLimit: 80
    logLimit: 10
    logDirectory: /var/log/iofog-agent/
    logFileCount: 10
    statusFrequency: 10
    changeFrequency: 10
    deviceScanFrequency: 60
    bluetoothEnabled: true
    watchdogEnabled: false
    abstractedHardwareEnabled: false
    upstreamRouters: ['default-router']
    networkRouter: ''
    routerConfig:
      routerMode: edge
      messagingPort: 5672
      edgeRouterPort: 56721
      interRouterPort: 56722
    dockerPruningFrequency: 1
    logLevel: INFO
    availableDiskThreshold: 90
  scripts:
    dir: /tmp/my-scripts
    deps:
      entrypoint: install_deps.sh
    install:
      entrypoint: install_iofog.sh
      args:
        - 3.0.0-alpha1
    uninstall:
      entrypoint: uninstall_iofog.sh

Required Fields

The following fields are necessary for every Agent YAML specification.

Field Description
name User-defined unique identifier of Agent instance within an iofogctl namespace. Must start and end with lowercase alphanumeric character. Can include '-' character.
host Hostname of remote host that iofogctl must SSH into to install Agent service.
ssh.user Username of remote host that iofogctl must SSH into to install Agent service.
ssh.keyFile Path to private SSH key that iofogctl must use to SSH into remote host to install Agent service.
ssh.port Port to use with SSH. Optional (default: 22).

Installation Plugin Fields

Agents can be specified to require user-defined installation scripts to be executed instead of the default iofogctl installation procedures.

Custom installation scripts are specified through the optional scripts field in the Agent YAML.

Field Description
dir Source directory containing all scripts to be used in Agent installation and uninstallation procedures. All files in this directory are copied to /etc/iofog/agent/ on the Agent host.
deps Details pertaining to the script in scripts.dir which serves as the entrypoint to installing pre-requisites of ioFog Agent.
install Details pertaining to the script in scripts.dir which serves as the entrypoint to installing ioFog Agent.
uninstall Details pertaining to the script in scripts.dir which serves as the entrypoint to uninstalling ioFog Agent.
*.entrypoint Name of the script in scripts.dir which serves as the entrypoint to a procedure run on the Agent host.
.*.args List of arguments to be provided to the entrypoint when invoked on the Agent host.

Configuration Fields

The following fields can be specified to modify Agent behaviour.

Note that these values can be overidden after Agent deployment through the AgentConfig kind specified here.

Configuration details are specified through the optional config field in the Agent YAML.

Field Description
name User-defined unique identifier of an agent within an ioFog Controller. Must start and end with lowercase alphanumeric character. Can include '-' character.
description Short description of the agent
latitude Latitude coordinate of the agent. The ioFog Agent will automatically try to detect its own latitude if it has access to the internet
longitude Longitude coordinate of the agent. The ioFog Agent will automatically try to detect its own longitude if it has access to the internet
agentType Architecture type of agent. It will be used to determine which image gets deployed. The accepted values are auto, x86 and arm. auto will have the ioFog agent detect the architecture it is running on, and report it to the ioFog controller. It defaults to auto if it fails to parse the value.
dockerUrl Docker engine socket
diskLimit Limit, in GiB, of disk space that the software is allowed to use
diskDirectory Set the directory to use for disk storage
memoryLimit Set the limit, in MiB, of RAM memory that the software is allowed to use for messages
cpuLimit Set the limit, in percentage, of CPU time that the software is allowed to use
logLimit Set the limit, in GiB, of disk space that the log files can consume
logDirectory Set the directory to use for log file storage
logFileCount Set the number of log files to evenly split the log storage limit
statusFrequency Set the status update frequency in seconds
changeFrequency Set the get changes frequency in seconds
deviceScanFrequency Set the scan devices frequency in seconds
bluetoothEnabled Boolean. Set on/off for the bluetooth service. If ON, this will install the restblue microservice
watchdogEnabled Boolean. If enabled, watchdog will kill all docker containers running on the agent if they are not part of the microservices deployed by ioFog. If enabled, only docker containers started by the agent process will be allowed to run
abstractedHardwareEnabled Boolean. Set on/off the HAL services. If ON, this will install the HAL microservice
upstreamRouters Set the upstream routers (using Agent names or default-router)
networkRouter Set the network router (using Agent names or default-router)
host Hostname used for router communication and public ports. Default: host provided at deploy time.
routerConfig Set the router configuration
routerConfig.routerMode Set the router mode. Available values are edge, interior and none. Default: edge
routerConfig.messagingPort Set the router messaging port. Default: 5672
routerConfig.edgeRouterPort Set the router edge router port. Only valid if routerMode is interior. Default: 56721
routerConfig.interRouterPort Set the router interior router port. Only valid if routerMode is interior. Default: 56722
logLevel Set the standard logging levels that can be used to control logging output
dockerPruningFrequency Set the docker pruning frequency in hours
availableDiskThreshold Set the available disk threshold

Agent Configuration YAML Specification

Agent Configuration YAML files let you configure an ioFog Agent provisioned with your Controller. You can use Agent Configuration to modify the behaviour of an Agent after it is deployed.

An Agent Configuration can be retrieved using iofogctl describe agent-config <AGENT_NAME>

An Agent Configuration can be deployed using iofogctl deploy -f agent-config.yaml

apiVersion: iofog.org/v2
kind: AgentConfig
metadata:
  name: agent-1 # ioFog Agent name
spec:
  # All fields are optional - Only the specified fields will be updated
  name: agent-1
  description: agent running on VM
  latitude: 46.204391
  longitude: 6.143158
  agentType: auto
  dockerUrl: unix:///var/run/docker.sock
  diskLimit: 50
  diskDirectory: /var/lib/iofog-agent/
  memoryLimit: 4096
  cpuLimit: 80
  logLimit: 10
  logDirectory: /var/log/iofog-agent/
  logFileCount: 10
  statusFrequency: 10
  changeFrequency: 10
  deviceScanFrequency: 60
  bluetoothEnabled: true
  watchdogEnabled: false
  abstractedHardwareEnabled: false
  upstreamRouters: ['default-router']
  networkRouter: ''
  host: 123.123.123.123
  routerConfig:
    routerMode: edge
    messagingPort: 5672
    edgeRouterPort: 56721
    interRouterPort: 56722
  dockerPruningFrequency: 1
  logLevel: INFO
  availableDiskThreshold: 90