About Bobbycar - The Red Hat Connected Vehicle Architecture

Bobbycar is a Red Hat solution pattern that implements key aspects of a modern IoT/Edge architecture in an exemplary manner. It uses Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and various middleware components optimized for a cloud-native usage.

This enterprise architecture can serve as a foundation for an IoT/Edge Hybrid Cloud environment supporting various use cases like OTA deployments, Driver monitoring, AI/ML and others.

Bobbycar aims to showcase an end-to-end workflow, from connecting in-vehicle components to a cloud backend, processing telemetry data in batch or as stream, training AI/ML models and deploying containers through a DevSecOps pipeline and by leveraging GitOps to the edge.

Purpose / Objectives

• How to use Red Hat technologies to build a cloud-native Hybrid Cloud environment supporting automotive use-cases.

• Accelerate building IoT solutions faster with Red Hat technologies.

• Bobbycar aims to showcase the COMPLETE Red Hat Middleware stack on OpenShift in a real world IoT context.

• Getting a more realistic hands-on experience with cloud-native development and OpenShift

Getting Started - The Installation

You can use the install.sh script to install this Solution Pattern.

Prerequisites

Before executing the install.sh script, make sure you have the following ready:

• A running OpenShift cluster environment (OCP on-premise, ROSA, OCP on IBM Cloud, ARO, OCP Dedicated) or OpenShift Local
• You have cluster-admin privileges for the OpenShift cluster
• OpenShift CLI (oc)
• Helm CLI
• A valid Google Maps API Key
• Gather the API and App domain of your OpenShift Cluster:
  • App domain example: apps.cluster-zxf6m.zxf6m.sandbox1856.opentlc.com
  • API domain example: api.cluster-zxf6m.zxf6m.sandbox1856.opentlc.com
• A clone of this Git repository

Running the installation

1. Provide the properties in install_cleanup_vars.sh, i.e.:

# The namespace to deploy the solution pattern in
NAMESPACE=bobbycar
# The clusters app domain without port
APP_DOMAIN=apps.cluster-pnc6l.pnc6l.sandbox52.opentlc.com
# The clusters api domain without port
API_DOMAIN=api.cluster-pnc6l.pnc6l.sandbox52.opentlc.com

# Google Maps API key - https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/get-api-key
GOOGLE_API_KEY=<MyGoogleMapsApiKey>
# OpenWeatherMap API Key - https://openweathermap.org/api
OWM_WEATHER_API_KEY=<MyApiKey>
# https://www.ibm.com/products/environmental-intelligence-suite/data-packages
IBM_WEATHER_API_KEY=<MyApiKey>

# Installs OpenShift Serverless in the cluster
INSTALL_KNATIVE=true
# Installs the required namespaced operators: AMQ Streams, AMQ Broker, Datagrid, Camel-K
INSTALL_OPERATORS=true
# Deletes the BobbycarZone CRD when executing ./cleanup.sh
DELETE_CRD=true

# Helm Release names
HELM_INFRA_RELEASE_NAME=infra
HELM_APP_RELEASE_NAME=apps
HELM_SERVERLESS_RELEASE_NAME=serverless

Mandatory fields are:

• NAMESPACE
• APP_DOMAIN
• API_DOMAIN
• GOOGLE_API_KEY

The weather-api fields are optional:

• OWM_WEATHER_API_KEY and/or
• IBM_WEATHER_API_KEY

If you haven't installed OpenShift Serverless in your cluster, you can set INSTALL_KNATIVE=true, this will install OpenShift Serverless.

INSTALL_OPERATORS=true will install the

• AMQ Streams
• AMQ Broker
• Camel-K
• Datagrid

operators in the local namespace you'll deploy this solution pattern into.

When using OpenShift Local, you can use the following values:

NAMESPACE=bobbycar
APP_DOMAIN=apps-crc.testing
API_DOMAIN=api-crc-testing

1. Running the install.sh script

./install.sh 

If you want to manually install Bobbycar in your own environment (step-by-step), please follow these installation instructions!

Clean up the installation

1. Run the cleanup.sh script to uninstall the solution pattern

If you also want to remove the BobbycarZone CRD, set DELETE_CRD=true in the install_cleanup_vars.sh script.

./cleanup.sh 

Technologies used in this Solution Pattern

• RH OpenShift, Enterprise Kubernetes
• RH OpenShift Serverless, based on Knative
• RH Runtimes, Quarkus
• RH AMQ Broker, MQTT
• RH AMQ Streams, Apache Kafka
• RH Fuse, Apache Camel-K
• RH Datagrid, Distributed Caching
• RH OpenShift Pipelines
• RH CodeReady Workspaces
• RH OpenJDK
• Angular, Ionic
• Gogs, Nexus, Sonarqube