KubeSerial

Manage your serial devices like 3D printers or CNC machines on your k8s cluster.

KubeSerial monitors your cluster nodes for physical devices specified in spec. Once the device is connected, it creates gateway service that exposes it over the network and manager service with specified management software. When the device gets disconnected everything is cleaned up.

Example:

This is an example configuration for 2 popular cheap printers - Ender 3 and Anet A8 - that handles their management and exposes Octoprint instance for each of them at http://ender3.my.home and http://aneta8.my.home.

# deployment/my-kubeserial.yaml
apiVersion: app.kubeserial.com/v1alpha1
kind: KubeSerial
metadata:
  name: kubeserial
  namespace: kubeserial
spec:
  devices:
    - name:       "ender3"
      idVendor:   "0403"
      idProduct:  "6001"
      manager:    "octoprint"
      subsystem:  "tty"
    - name:       "aneta8"
      idVendor:   "1a86"
      idProduct:  "7523"
      manager:    "octoprint"
      subsystem:  "tty"
  ingress:
    enabled: true
    domain: ".my.home"
    annotations:
      kubernetes.io/ingress.class: traefik

Requirements

k8s cluster - ATM only ARM clusters are supported.
Ingress controller installed in the cluster for ingress rules to work.

Install

Install manually

Create the Deployment, CRDs, ServiceAccount etc.

kubectl create -f deploy/kubeserial.yaml

Create your configuration file based on example above. To find out values of idVendor and idProduct for your device, connect it to your computer, locate where it is (let's say /dev/ttyUSB0) and run:

udevadm info -q all -n /dev/ttyUSB0 --attribute-walk

Look for them from the top. Once you've got your configuration, run

kubectl create -f my-kubeserial.yaml

Components

Controller

Manages operator components by observing state of each of the devices.

Monitor

Monitors cluster nodes waiting for specified serial devices to be connected and updates their state.

Gateway

Exposed specific device in cluster network over TCP.

Manager

Creates deployment with management software, mounts your device over the network and gives you access through ingress rule.

Supported managers

Octoprint

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