Barbara runs on the infrastructure you already have in place.
The management platform runs as managed SaaS, in your own cloud or on-premise, even air-gapped. The edge nodes run on bare metal, your existing Linux machines or virtual machines, on Intel and ARM.
Intel
NVIDIA
ARM
Physical
Virtual
Cloud
On-Prem
MANAGEMENT PLATFORM
SAAS
Barbara-hosted
YOUR CLOUD
AWS · Azure · GCP
ON-PREMISE
Your data center
Secure link · online, offline or air-gapped
EDGE NODES
BARE METAL
IPC or gateway
EXISTING LINUX
Your Linux hosts
VIRTUAL MACHINE
Any hypervisor
Barbara Panel & Marketplace
Where the control plane runs: cloud or on-premise.
Deploy Barbara Panel and Marketplace as a fully managed SaaS, in your own cloud or entirely on-premise. All three give you the same central control plane; what changes is where it runs, who owns the infrastructure and how isolated it is.
SaaS
The fastest way to get started.
Use Barbara as a fully managed cloud service. We handle the infrastructure, upgrades, backups and maintenance, so your team can focus on onboarding nodes and deploying workloads.
Your Cloud
Inside your cloud environment.
Deploy the control plane in your own Azure, AWS, Google Cloud or private cloud. You keep full ownership of the infrastructure, under your governance and compliance, with secure access across your sites.
On-Premise
Maximum isolation and control.
Deploy the control plane within your own data center or industrial network and operate without relying on public cloud infrastructure. Ideal for restricted or air-gapped environments.
| Deployment model | SaaS | Your Cloud | On-Premise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Where the control plane runs | Barbara’s cloud | Your Azure, AWS, Google Cloud or private cloud | Your data center or industrial network |
| Who maintains the infrastructure | Barbara | Your team (with Barbara’s support) | Your team (with Barbara’s support) |
| Internet access | Required | Required | Not required: runs air-gapped |
| Best for | Getting started fastest, with no infrastructure to run | Organizations standardized on their own cloud | Data residency, isolation and air-gapped sites |
On-premise deployment
Barbara Solo: the full control plane, inside your infrastructure.
With Barbara Solo, Barbara Panel and Marketplace run inside your own data center or industrial network, even air-gapped, with no connection to Barbara Cloud. Everything stays within your security perimeter, ready for strict data-residency and compliance requirements.
Barbara Panel Solo
Deploy, monitor and update every node and workload, with logs, databases and platform services kept inside your infrastructure. Access runs through your existing identity provider and roles.
Barbara Marketplace Solo
A private catalog with only the applications your organization approves, plus your own. Operators deploy from it without introducing unapproved software.
Barbara Core
The nodes: physical devices or virtualized ones.
Barbara Core is the software that turns a device into a managed edge node, and is installed three ways: directly on the hardware, on top of a Linux system you already maintain, or inside a virtual machine. Whichever you choose, the node connects to Barbara Panel the same way and is operated through the same interface.
Bare Metal
Purpose-built for the industrial edge.
Install Barbara Core directly on the device using Barbara OS or a Yocto-based image. This provides a tightly controlled software stack designed for industrial environments.
Existing Linux
Keep your current operating system.
Install Barbara Core on devices already running Debian or Ubuntu. This model fits environments where Linux is standardized and maintained through existing IT processes.
Virtual Machine
Virtualize your edge infrastructure.
Deploy Barbara Core as a virtual machine on VMware, KVM or Hyper-V, or as a cloud VM in AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. This makes it easy to add Barbara to existing virtualized infrastructure.
Hardware
Barbara Core runs on any gateway or industrial PC.
Barbara Core supports Intel and ARM architectures across industrial PCs, gateways, servers and compact edge devices, including rack-mounted, wall-mounted and DIN-rail form factors. Looking for GPU acceleration? Barbara Core also supports NVIDIA GPUs.
Architecture fit
Fit Barbara into your ISA-95 architecture.
Barbara fits the ISA-95 levels your teams already use. Barbara Core runs close to the process, hosting your applications and AI models and connecting to PLCs, SCADA systems and historians. Barbara Panel and Marketplace sit above the site layer, in SaaS, your own cloud or on-premise.
IT
OT
Level 5 ·
Business
Public cloud
Supply chain
Planning
Corporate IT
Level 4 ·
Enterprise
ERP
CMMS
BI
Mail and files
Level 3.5 ·
Industrial DMZ
Firewall
Data replica
Remote jump
Patch proxy
Level 3 ·
Operations
MES / MOM
LIMS
Historian
Recipes
Level 2 ·
Supervision
SCADA
OPC server
HMI
Eng. station
Level 1 ·
Control
PLC
Safety (SIS)
RTU
Drives
Level 0 ·
Physical process
Sensors
Valves
Actuators
Motors
Edge Nodes
Typically deployed at Purdue Levels 2–3, but may extend to Level 1 for control workloads such as soft PLCs, or to the DMZ (Level 3.5) when acting as a secure IT/OT gateway.
Cloud Management Platform
Deployed as SaaS in the public cloud, typically at Purdue Level 5, but may also be deployed in the customer's private cloud, typically at Purdue Level 4.
On-prem Management Platform
Deployed within the OT network, typically at Purdue Level 3, providing local management and orchestration of Edge Nodes without requiring cloud connectivity.
Choose the right deployment model.
Every industrial environment has different requirements for connectivity, security, ownership and scale. Reach out to us and we'll find the right deployment for you.
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