Getting Started
Welcome to Ignition Guides - a collection of community guides for working with Ignition SCADA using modern development practices.
What Is in Here
| Section | What You Will Find |
|---|---|
| Guides | Concept guides explaining how each piece of the stack works |
| Labs | Hands-on exercises that run end to end on a local gateway |
| Reference | Quick-reference pages for conventions, standards, and Ignition concepts |
| Tools | Community tools built around Ignition |
Start Learning
Concept guides and hands-on labs are organized separately because they have different shapes. Guides are independent reading: each one stands on its own and you can read them in any order. Labs share a local Ignition gateway, so they have a recommended order and a few prerequisites you should set up first.
- Workstation Setup - required for every guide
- Traefik Reverse Proxy - required for any lab
- Kubernetes Setup - required for the Helm lab only
Read in any order. Each guide stands on its own and explains how a piece of the system works.
Containerization
Docker Compose, the project-template architecture, licensing, and day-to-day gateway operations.
Version Control
Git, GitHub, and source-control workflows for the Ignition project files your gateway produces.
Orchestration
Kubernetes concepts for Ignition and the official Inductive Automation Helm chart.
Recommended order. Labs build on a local Ignition gateway, so later labs reuse the setup from earlier ones.