With the upcoming version of Eclipse Kura 4, we will see some nice new features for the embedded Apache Camel runtime. This tutorial walks you through the Camel integration of Kura wires, which allows you to bridge both technologies, and leverage the power of Apache Camel for your solutions on the IoT gateway.

Working for Red Hat is awesome. Not only can you work on amazing things, you will also get the tools you need in order to do just that. We wanted to test Eclipse Hono (yes, again) and see how far we can scale it. And of course which limits and issues we encounter on the way. So we took the current development version of Hono (0.7) from Eclipse IoT, backed by EnMasse 0.21 and ran it on an OpenShift 3.9 cluster.

PEM is a well know file format when it comes to certificates. And when using Kubernetes (or OpenShift in my case) it is so easy to re-use the internal CA for some tasks.

In the past I was testing modifications to Kura with a Raspberry Pi 3 and Fedora for ARM. But I got a nice little Intel UP² just recently, and so I decided to perform my next Kura tests, with the modifications to the Apache Camel runtime in Kura, on this nice board. Creating a new device profile for Kura using CentOS 7 and the Intel UP² looked like a good idea anyway.

If you want to do large scale IoT and build your own IoT cloud platform, then you will need a messaging layer which can actually handle this. Not only handle the sheer load of messages, the number of connections. Even more important may be ability to integrate your custom bits and pieces and be able to make changes to every layer of that installation, in a controlled, yet simple way.