Dear community I'm a stakeholder of a recently kicked-off project where Node-Red will be used for machine connectivity and data flows between the machines. Developers in the project team suggest to create a virtual machine for every instance/installation of Node-Red, in future most likely 50 instan…

Are the flows there to communicate between machines? Each machine can have it's own flow communication with one central virtual machine and the virtual machine communication back to each machine. I all depends on how you set up your flows, messages and who need to communicate with who.

[image] pserri: Developers in the project team suggest to create a virtual machine for every instance/installation of Node-Red Based on what though ? What traffic load is expected, what throughput is expected ? Are there any SLA's/SLO's defined/attached to availability ? Is it depending on…

There are a lot more questions to be answered here. How valuable will the end system be? How sensitive (what happens if there is an attack?)? What is your preferred virtualisation architecture? Will you be running the instances in a cloud or locally? All of these things will feed into potential an…

There's a lot of questions a lot of people here have pointed out asking. But I'll throw a curveball at all of this and see if I can add some food for thought. Node-Red is a Javascript based system. Javascript itself is a system built for client-server relationships. Generally speaking, you have a…

I have a production application running across multiple instances, somewhat similar to what you describe but not exactly the same (4 instances, each in their own VM) though in our case the separation is for isolation of security and failure domains. One of the most important considerations is figur…

A lot of this would depend on what the developers are comfortable with and who is going to support it. It would also further depend on your IT infrastructure and what you have in place there. For example if you are running VMware ESXi this would be very easy to do and would give lots of benefits -…

Modularization?!

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zj-flowfuse 8 November 2022 13:38 4

This is one of the use-cases FlowForge handles, both the roll-out of flows to instances as the communication between them. With the size of the deployment you're talking about, you could consider both FlowForge open-source or the premium version. If you're interested in understanding more about FlowForge feel free to email zj@flowforge.com to set up a call.

Full disclosure; I'm the CEO at FlowForge

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Modularization?!

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