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IPC Platform Engineering

Industrial PC Platform for Edge Computing, Compliance, and Zero-Touch Operations


The Three Pillars

Pillar Description Documentation
Automated Provisioning Packer golden images with CIS hardening, Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021 Golden Image Pipeline
Compliance as a Service Real-time audit logging, NIST 800-171 mapping, 90-day retention Compliance
Zero-Touch Updates GitOps deployment via Flux, automatic image updates, no truck rolls GitOps Configuration

Quick Start

Task Guide
Understand the architecture Platform Overview
Set up Azure foundation Azure Foundation
Deploy edge cluster Edge Deployment
View workload catalog OPC-UAMonitoringAnalytics
Troubleshoot issues Troubleshooting
Command reference Quick Reference

Documentation Index

Core Platform

# Document Description
00 Overview Architecture, design principles, three pillars
01 Azure Foundation Resource groups, Workload Identity Federation, networking
02 Golden Image Pipeline Packer templates, CIS hardening, Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021
03 Edge Deployment AKS Edge Essentials, Azure Arc connection
04 GitOps Configuration Flux setup, image automation, zero-touch updates

Workloads

# Document Workloads Covered
05 OPC-UA Workloads opcua-simulator, opcua-gateway
06 Monitoring Workloads health-monitor, log-forwarder
07 Analytics Workloads anomaly-detection, test-data-collector, ev-battery-simulator, vision-simulator, motion-simulator, motion-gateway

Operations

# Document Description
08 CI/CD Pipelines Build, scan, sign pipelines with Trivy
09 Compliance as a Service NIST mapping, KQL queries, audit evidence

Reference

# Document Description
A1 Troubleshooting Common issues and solutions
A2 Quick Reference Commands, scripts, cheat sheet

Repository Structure

IPC-Platform-Engineering/
├── docker/              # Workload containers (10 workloads)
├── kubernetes/          # K8s manifests, Flux config
├── packer/              # Golden image templates
├── pipelines/           # Azure DevOps CI/CD
├── scripts/             # Utility PowerShell scripts
├── compliance/          # Evidence collection, KQL queries
├── observability/       # Dashboards, alerts
└── docs/
    ├── wiki/            # This documentation
    ├── architecture/    # ADRs
    └── security/        # Risk register

Last Updated: 2026-01-30

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