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Manage device networking

Let’s learn how to manage device networking on SPEKTRA Edge.

We utilize the Canonical Netplan to manage device networking on SPEKTRA Edge. It provides the clean and intuitive YAML based configuration and support wide range of Linux networking managers.

In this guide, we’ll learn how to configure the wireless interface on Raspberry Pi as the secondary interface to get familier with the Netplan YAML configuration.

Netplan how-to guides

Please take a look at the official Netplan how-to guides for additional examples how to configure device networking.

What you need

To go through this page, you need the followings.

• an access to the SPEKTRA Edge dashboard
• an active project
• a device provisioned under the project

Configure Wi-Fi networking

Go to the Device overview page by clicking the device name, e.g. Raspbrerry Pi 5, on the Project overview page.

Then, click the Edit details option of the Device actions to open the Update device details page.

Go to the Network agent section of the Update device details page and use the Merge option to add the new Wi-Fi specific configuration.

Netplan Wi-Fi configurations

Please note that the above example is a simple Wi-Fi network configuration to connect to the home Wi-Fi network with spektra SSID and edge password.

Please take a look at the official Netplan How-to guides for more real-life Wi-Fi configurations.

Verify Wi-Fi networking

Go to the Device overview page and check the IP address as well as the ISP information for the wireless interface.

Next step

Congratulations for configuring the Wi-Fi networking of your Raspberry Pi with SPEKTRA Edge.

With that, let’s move on to the next learning material, managing device OS releases on SPEKTRA Edge.

Onwards.

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Configure network proxies

If your edge device network is configured to use the proxy servers to access the internet, especially accessing the container registries, you need to configure the proxy servers on your device.

Configuring the network proxy servers on SPEKTRA Edge is easy and straight forward.

Let’s learn how to do it on your device.

What you need

To go through this page, you need the followings.

• an access to the SPEKTRA Edge dashboard
• an active project
• a device provisioned under the project
• The name and the port number of the proxy server

Configure proxy servers

Let’s configure the proxy server on your device.

Go to the Device overview page of the target device under your project by clicking the name of the device on the Project overview page.

Open the Update device details page by clicking the Edit detail option of the device menu option.

Configure the proxy server in the HTTP and/or HTTPs proxy server section of the Update device details page.

You can configure the device to bypass the proxy servers for the particular communication, e.g. the node local communication in the example below.

Save the page and you are good to go.

The device goes through the proxy server for the HTTP and HTTPS traffic.

Next step

Congratulations for configuring the network proxy servers to give access to the internet as well as accessing the public container registries.

With that, let’s move on to the next learning material, managing device OS releases on SPEKTRA Edge.

Onwards.