Deploying an IoT Edge device
To deploy an Azure IoT Edge device, you typically need to follow these key steps:
- Set up an Azure IoT hub: Create an Azure IoT hub, which acts as a central messaging hub for bi-directional communication between your edge devices and the cloud. This hub will manage device identities, security, and message routing, just as it does for the devices as well.
- Provision the IoT Edge device: Register and provision your physical device as an Azure IoT Edge device. This involves creating a device identity within the IoT hub and generating the necessary security credentials (for example, device connection string or X.509 certificate) to authenticate the device with the hub. The following screenshot shows how to set up an IoT Edge device; you can see that you just have to check the box indicating the device is an IoT Edge device:
Figure 9.1 – Provisioning an edge device
- Install and configure the Azure IoT Edge runtime...
