As a small yet powerful single-board computer, the Raspberry Pi is a perfect computer to use as an edge device. Using Stretch, a version of the Raspbian operating system, we are able to configure the Raspberry Pi as an Azure IoT Edge device.
In this chapter, we installed the libraries and dependencies needed to turn the Raspberry Pi into an edge device for an Azure IoT Hub. We configured the necessary resources in the Azure portal and used the Microsoft Device Explorer tool to read telemetry data from our Raspberry Pi Azure IoT Edge device.
In the next chapter, we will step away from Microsoft Azure and use the MicroPython programming language for edge analytics.