Cloud-Powered Robotics with Raspberry Pi

Transform your knowledge into action by constructing a comprehensive robot monitoring system step by step. Through this hands-on project, you will gain practical experience with cloud native tools, solidifying your understanding of their applications and empowering you to leverage their capabilities for your own projects. Explore the boundless potential of cloud native computing in robotics, discovering how these tools are revolutionizing industries like assembly, farming, and medicine. Gain insights from real-world case studies, witnessing how small companies are harnessing the power of cloud native tools to create innovative robotic solutions.

Join the forefront of cloud robotics and empower yourself to build, deploy, and monitor intelligent robotic applications that transform industries and shape the future.

KEY FEATURES  

• Learn the basics of DevOps and Cloud Native Computing.
• Learn how to build a robot using web frameworks like Flask.
• Learn how to use Docker to containerize your applications.
• Learn how to orchestrate your Raspberry Pi containers with Kubernetes.
• Learn how to use GitHub Actions and Argo CD to test and deploy applications.
• Learn how to use Prometheus to gather metrics.
• Learn how to build a Dashboard with Grafana.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

• Learn the basics of DevOps and Cloud Native Computing.
• Learn how to use cloud native tools by building a robot monitoring application.
• Learn how each tool works and understand the concepts of cloud native computing along the way. 
• Specific examples of how to use cloud native tools in other fields such as assembly, farming and medicine.

WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR

This book is for DevOps engineers who are already familiar with these tools and want to apply them to other projects, software developers who want to learn cloud native tools for the first time, robotics and IoT enthusiasts and engineers who want to learn cloud native tools to apply them to their projects. The only requirements are knowing the basics of Python, Node.js or Java.

1. Introduction to DevOps and Cloud Native Computing
2. Flask Robot Control
3. Node.js/Express Robot Control
4. Spring Boot Robot Control
5. Containerization with Docker
6. Container Orchestration with Kubernetes
7. Continuous Integration with GitHub Actions
8. Continuous Delivery with Argo CD
9. Monitoring with Prometheus
10. Building a Dashboard with Grafana
11. Use Cases and the Future of Cloud Native for Robotics

Edgardo Peregrino is a freelance software developer, IT technician and the author of the book Programming Raspberry Pi in 30 Days. He has developed projects to help educate and inspire new programmers and aspiring developers. He has certifications from both CompTIA and Microsoft which include A+ and Microsoft Technology Associate. He is the author of the article Using GUIs to Control Two Robots, Using GUIs to Control Two Robots- Update: Multi-Platform GUIs, Dual Robot Control Using Web Development + the Cloud and Cloud Native Computing + Robots = Magic and the latest article My Cloud Native Journey which can be found on Servo Magazine. His work is also featured on the Grafana Blog under the blog post Monitoring robots in real time with Grafana and other cloud native solutions.