Proposal for new streamsx.iot.starter

[natashadsilva]

The [Water conservation starter kit])https://github.com/natashadsilva/streamsx.waterConservation.starterKit/) is a complete sample application demonstrating the Streams/Edgent/Weather application. It has a one-click deployment that handles all the setup steps needed to create Streams applications that analyze data from IoT devices.

The goal of this proposal is to create a simplified version of the water conservation starter kit. It has a one-click deploy that will create the needed services and credentials. Right now, it performs steps 1-3 of the manual steps in the link above, but does not deploy any jobs because the user might incur a cost.

Although the setup steps can be done manually and are not difficult, there are quite a few things to do, which could be discouraging.

The initial commit creates a landing page with links to available tutorials and all the needed credentials. This way, if someone is following a tutorial or recipe, then he/she can deploy the services and then continue with the tutorial.

This could be a branch in the samples repository but I think making it its own repository is cleaner and easier to find.
If the proposal is accepted we'll update the starter kits link on http://ibmstreams.github.io/ to include it.

Sample landing page Repo: https://github.com/natashadsilva/streamsx.iot.starter

Please vote.

[chanskw]

+1 This is an interesting way to get people started.
I find the tutorial flow a little confusing. Perhaps a diagram will help. But we can work on that a bit later.

I think this is a great way to build starter kit for streams. Another useful starter kit, maybe to show people how to deploy message hub and streams.. and getting data from there.

[chanskw]

I will leave this open for until next Wednesday Oct 11. Please vote or let us know if you have any objection. Thanks!

[chanskw]

@natashadsilva can we call this streamsx.iot.starterKit?

So the name matches with other starter kit?

[natashadsilva]

@chanskw I went with just starter and not starter kit because it doesn't have a whole application, which most other starter kits do have; not sure if that difference is worth using a slightly different name ?

[ddebrunner]

Could it be just a sample then in the streamsx.iot toolkit?

[chanskw]

I thought about the same thing.. whether it can be part of streamsx.iot.... But this is actually a starter kit that people can customize after it is launched in Bluemix I think.

[chanskw]

I propose to keep starterKit in the name and not make this distinction.

@natashadsilva in the generated *.properties file, I think it's missing an equal sign in apiToken. This is what got generated for me:

org=myorg apiKey=mykey apiTokenmytoken

[chanskw]

@ddebrunner do you have any objection to this? I tried this out and it is very helpful. I think having a top level starter kit is a good idea here as it provides more visibility. We can link to the starter kit from streamsx.iot. Please let me know.

[ddebrunner]

+1

[mikespicer]

+1

[chanskw]

Repository streamsx.iot.starterkit is created.