Tutorial: Connect and Configure Raspberry Pi as an Azure IoT Edge Device
Azure IoT Edge is an edge computing platform from Microsoft. It is an extension of Azure IoT that can run on local devices in offline mode.
In the last part of this series, I introduced the technical architecture of Azure IoT Edge. In this tutorial, we will explore how to connect and configure Raspberry Pi as an edge device that talks to Azure IoT.
We will control an LED matrix that comes with a Raspberry Pi accessory known as Sense Hat. The idea is to change the color of the LED matrix remotely by pushing different versions of modules packaged as Docker containers.
There are three broad steps involved in this tutorial:
- Creating cloud resources in Azure IoT
- Configuring and connecting Raspberry Pi to Azure IoT
- Deploying modules to the edge devices
We will use the CLI for the most parts of the tutorial while switching to Azure Portal for configuring and deploying modules.
Let’s get started!
Prerequisites
- Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+
- Sense Hat
- Active Microsoft Azure account
- Latest version of Azure CLI
- Azure IoT CLI extension
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