Deploying N3uron

Overview

N3uron is an industrial connectivity and edge computing platform designed for IIoT applications. With it, your device can integrate, process, and distribute industrial data efficiently. Running it as a container on an ALPON X5 AI or ALPON X4 keeps the data pipeline at the edge, next to your equipment, and stays manageable through ALPON Cloud.

The steps below are identical on ALPON X4 and ALPON X5 AI. For detailed information about the platform itself, see the N3uron documentation.

1. 1

   Add the N3uron container

   Make sure the n3uronhub/n3uron:v1.21.12 image is available to your device. The recommended path is to push it to your Sixfab Container Registry so deployments are fast and work offline. From your build machine, pull the arm64 image:

   bash · pull the image

   docker pull --platform linux/arm64 n3uronhub/n3uron:v1.21.12

   Then log in to Sixfab Registry, click + Add Container, and follow the prompts to push the image.

   Pushing images to the Sixfab Container Registry

   For the full walkthrough of tagging and pushing an image, see Update Containers from the Sixfab Container Registry.

   Alternative: deploy straight from Docker Hub

   If you prefer not to use the Sixfab Container Registry, choose “I would like to use my own container path” during deployment and enter n3uronhub/n3uron:v1.21.12. The container is then pulled directly from Docker Hub (the device needs internet access at deploy time).

2. 2

   Deploy the container on ALPON

   Open your device in ALPON Cloud, go to the Applications section, and click + Deploy. In the Deploy Container window, use these settings:

   Container Name n3uron

   Image The N3uron image and tag you pushed to the Sixfab Container Registry — or, using the alternative option, n3uronhub/n3uron:v1.21.12.

   Environment Click + Add More and add the variable in the first table below.

   Ports Click + Add More and add the port mapping in the second table below.

   Volumes Click + Add More and add the four volumes in the third table below.

   Environment variables — this sets the initial password for the admin user:

   Key	Value
   ADMIN_PASSWORD	n3uron

   Ports — exposes the web interface:

   From	To
   8003	8003

   Volumes — keep configuration, data, logs, and licenses across container restarts:

   Read/Write	Local Path	Target Path
   Read/Write	config	/opt/n3uron/config
   Read/Write	data	/opt/n3uron/data
   Read/Write	log	/opt/n3uron/log
   Read/Write	licenses	/opt/n3uron/licenses

   Click + Deploy to launch N3uron on the device.

3. 3

   Open the N3uron web interface

   Once the deployment finishes, find the device's local IP address under Asset Details → Network tab → Interface Monitoring → Details, then, from a device on the same network as the ALPON, open the web interface in a browser:

   browser · N3uron web interface

   http://<DEVICE_IP>:8003

   Log in with username admin and password n3uron (or the custom ADMIN_PASSWORD you set in step 2). If the page doesn't load, confirm the container is running in the Applications section and that port 8003 was mapped.

   Through the N3uron web interface you can configure industrial data sources, build data processing workflows, monitor device and network performance, manage users and permissions, and apply configuration updates. For container changes or redeployments, use ALPON Cloud's management tools.