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_3

3. Azure IoT Edge Development Environment

David Jensen¹ 

(1)

Powder Springs, GA, USA

 

The Azure IoT Edge platform has a robust set of tools that provides developers with a similar development experience to what they are used to, in spite of the more complicated configuration of an edge solution. The Azure IoT Edge development toolchain is based on Visual Studio or VS Code, Docker/Moby, .Net Core (for .Net apps), Azure IoT Hub, and a container registry, usually either DockerHub or Azure Container Registry (ACR). This chapter will walk you through how to set up, configure, and connect all of these separate technologies to create a cohesive development ...