Options to generate apps for Industrial Edge Devices¶

This section describes the different mechanisms you can use to generate apps for Edge Devices with Industrial Edge App Publisher.

Generating an app from a tar file¶

Use this mechanism to generate an app from a tar file that has been saved from a Docker repository. The following figure illustrates the process.

create from tar

An image from the Docker repository is exported to a tar file, using the Docker save command. The Industrial Edge App Publisher imports the image from the tar file and put together with app and device specific configurations to an .app file. This generated app can be imported to an Industrial Edge Mangement.

Generating an app from a Docker Engine¶

Use this mechanism to generate an app with an image that is located on a Docker Engine. The following figure illustrates the process.

create from engine

The app creation procedure works in the same way as creating an Industrial Edge app from a tar file but uses an image from a Docker repository instead of the exported tar file.

The Industrial Edge Publisher needs a connection to a Docker Engine to be able to use this process, refer to section Connect the IE App Publisher.

Next step¶

Once you have decided on an app creation mechanism, you can continue creating app versions, refer to section Add a new Version to an Edge App.