PACEdge Adding Custom Python Container

PACEdge
12/31/2025
01/05/2026

Summary:
Example how to add your own Python docker container to PACEdge and how to establish communication to it from Node-RED by using MQTT.
Example uses freely available tensorflow python container, but any other container can be used instead.
Example steps:

1.Create python application and store it on PACEdge host Linux
2.Modify docker-compose.yml file to build and start new container
3.Execute docker-compose and get python container running
4.Create a Node-RED flow to communicate with python container via MQTT

Applicable PACEdge Versions: 2.1, 2.1.1, 2.2
 

Attached Documents