Beginning Azure IoT Edge Computing: Extending the Cloud to the Intelligent Edge

© David Jensen 2019

David JensenBeginning Azure IoT Edge Computinghttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4536-1_2

2. Azure IoT Edge Core Concepts

David Jensen¹ 

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Powder Springs, GA, USA

 

The Azure IoT Edge platform is an extension of the Azure IoT suite of services and, consequently, leverages the same Azure platform services. There are some differences between a canonical IoT solution and an IoT Edge solution in the IoT Hub service and I will highlight those differences where appropriate. To begin your journey toward using and benefiting from the Azure IoT Edge computing platform, you must understand the basic concepts of Azure IoT, Azure IoT Edge, and some of the related technologies. Azure IoT Edge makes use of some existing technologies, like containers, ...