Vertebrate

Industrial Data Centric Tech Stack

Installation:

OPTIONAL for Frontend: create a Win11 or Server 2022 VM that can run VMs (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyper-v-on-windows/user-guide/enable-nested-virtualization)
create a folder in C: called 10_Projects where all the project files will be (PLC; kafka,...)
OPTIONAL for Frontend: download and install codesys control win to be able to program and engineer a PLC (https://store.codesys.com/en/codesys-control-win-sl-1.html)
OPTIONAL for Frontend: install vscode (https://code.visualstudio.com/)
install github desktop and subscribe to our repo and use VScode as the editor
install docker desktop (https://www.docker.com/products/docker-desktop/)
download the Kafka UI container from Github (https://github.com/provectus/kafka-ui)
Install Python from MS store
Download Kafka Scala 2.13 to run the zookeeper and broker (https://kafka.apache.org/downloads) - currently apps running from the terminal
for Kafka: the folders must be like this:
- for Kafka zookeper properties: dataDir=C:/10_Projects/Kafka/zookeeper
- for KAFKA BROKER properties: log.dirs=C:/10_Projects/Kafka/kafka-logs
install/update Java JavaSetup8u421
OPTIONAL for Frontend: install UAexpert OPC viewer to be able to see and manupliate PLC data for testing

for Vertebrate project, we need extra libraries on terminal run:

--------------Kafka - Terminal -------------- C:\10_Projects\Kafka\kafka

--------------Kafka UI - Docker -------------- Run the Docker for the Kafka UI

--------------PLC - Taskbar --------------

--------------Kafka producer and consumer - VScode --------------