Using k8s, Bare Metal, & 5G to achieve autonomous drone delivery!
summary
Uses Packet bare-metal plus Sprint 5G to run an edge IoT stack that actually controls flying drones: k3s Kubernetes, OpenFaaS, NATS/Emitter, Postgres, Prometheus, Grafana/Metabase and Mapbox are deployed from a GitHub repo and run on a single small server (about $0.07/hr). Demonstrates k3s + OpenFaaS + NATS/Emitter deployed in minutes, ingesting high-rate telemetry and issuing real-time bi-directional control (pause, altitude change, reroute) for collision, wind and no-fly avoidance; tests show good 5G coverage and safe fallback behaviors.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Start
- 1:42What are we covering today?
- 2:32Packet Overview
- 3:28Our Acquisition by Equinix
- 4:12Create your own server!
- 5:26Architecting for Success at the Edge
- 9:55Kubernetes
- 10:30Emitter
- 11:57Prometheus
- 12:42Grafana
- 13:10PostgreSQL
- 14:08Mapbox
- 14:54Metabase
- 16:21Marrying the software to the hardware!
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