Integrating HighByte with the United Manufacturing Hub

In this video, we’ll walk through connecting HighByte, a data processing engine, with the United Manufacturing Hub (UMH). HighByte is an OT-friendly alternative to Node-RED to handle operational technology data, making it a useful tool alongside the UMH.

We will start by demonstrating how to download and set up HighByte within Kubernetes. Next, we’ll show you how to configure it to use data from the UMH, model this data, and send it back to UMH. From there on, the modeled data in the UMH will then be used in other applications and stored automatically in the UMH Historian.

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This tutorial requires resources, which can be found further down the page.

Chapters

00:00 - 01:38 Introduction
01:38 - 03:26 Downloading the HighByte Intelligence Hub 4.0.0 Docker image
03:26 - 06:36 Pushing the Docker image to Docker Hub
06:36 - 07:35 Overview of the UMH stack deployment
07:35 - 09:40 Configuring the Docker Hub Kubernetes secret
09:40 - 12:40 Deploying HighByte as a Kubernetes service
12:40 - 13:25 Accessing HighByte on the host
13:25 - 15:23 HighByte workflow overview
15:23 - 19:03 Configure the HighByte Connection with Inputs and Outputs
19:03 - 20:45 Configure the HighByte Model
20:45 - 22:45 Configure the HighByte Instance
22:45 - 27:23 Configure the Highbyte pipeline
27:23 - 28:10 Debugging the pipeline with Replay
28:10 - 28:57 Inspecting the data with the UNS Client
28:57 - 29:35 Inspecting the data with the UMH Management Console
29:35 - 30:23 Further resources and help

Further Resources

deployment

deployment.yaml

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create-kubernetes-secret

create-kubernetes-secret.sh

435 Bytes

DOCKER_REGISTRY_SERVER=docker.io
DOCKER_USER="<enter your Docker username>"
DOCKER_EMAIL="<enter your email>"
DOCKER_PASSWORD="<enter your password>"

sudo kubectl create secret docker-registry myregistrykey \
  --docker-server=$DOCKER_REGISTRY_SERVER \
  --docker-username=$DOCKER_USER \
  --docker-password=$DOCKER_PASSWORD \
  --docker-email=$DOCKER_EMAIL \
  -n united-manufacturing-hub \ 
  --kubeconfig /etc/rancher/k3s/k3s.yaml

Kubernetes Docker Hub secret creation command

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: highbyte-deployment
  namespace: united-manufacturing-hub
spec:
  replicas: 1
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: highbyte
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: highbyte
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: highbyte-container
        image: gontcharovd/highbyte:4.0.0
        ports:
        - containerPort: 45245
        - containerPort: 1885
        - containerPort: 8885
        volumeMounts:
        - name: highbyte-config
          mountPath: /usr/local/highbyte/config
      volumes:
      - name: highbyte-config
        persistentVolumeClaim:
          claimName: hb-pvc
      imagePullSecrets:
      - name: myregistrykey

---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: highbyte-service
  namespace: united-manufacturing-hub
spec:
  selector:
    app: highbyte
  ports:
    - name: port-45245
      protocol: TCP
      port: 45245
      targetPort: 45245
    - name: port-1885
      protocol: TCP
      port: 1885
      targetPort: 1885
    - name: port-8885
      protocol: TCP
      port: 8885
      targetPort: 8885
  type: LoadBalancer

---
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
metadata:
  name: hb-pvc
  namespace: united-manufacturing-hub
spec:
  accessModes:
    - ReadWriteOnce
  resources:
    requests:
      storage: 1Gi

Kubernetes Deployment file