Building Container Base Application Delivery System for IoT Platform

The Internet of Things (IoT) devices are generating a large amount of data, and many companies are utilizing them. The data, that generated by IoT devices such as sensor, often must be analyzed very r …

The Internet of Things (IoT) devices are generating a large amount of data, and many companies are utilizing them. The data, that generated by IoT devices such as sensor, often must be analyzed very rapid and confidentially. In case of industrial factories, IoT require new kind of platform. To archive rapid analytics or fast response time, the application should be running nearby IoT devices, such as edge computing. And we must continuously manage and update the applications, that located all over the world. We built the container base application delivery system for this industrial IoT platform using docker registry mainly. However docker registry is insufficient for satisfy our demands as follows. ・Check authenticity of container images for security reason. ・Manage thousand of images with no delay and difficulty. ・Update images via narrow band such as Over the Air network. In this presentation, attendees will learn the way to build the application delivery platform that satisfy the above demands. To achieve image authenticity, we combined some component, not only docker registry, such as docker notary and clair. In addition, we improved registry’s content addressability to manage a large amount of container images, and incorporated binary delta updating technique into image delivery mechanism for narrow band networks.