Architecture and components
IIoT Core Services is built on top of an infrastructure of platform components, also referred to as Foundry.

The platform components include the following:
- Authentication and authorization API
- Istio
- Control plane
- OS (qualified)
NoteKubernetes is a prerequisite to installing IIoT Core Services.
User management, including Identity and Access Management (IAM), is done in Keycloak, which is provided as a separate component.