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_7

7. Device Provisioning Service

David Jensen¹ 

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Powder Springs, GA, USA

 

In this chapter, we shift our focus away from the edge platform and processing and take a look at one of the cloud services that supports any production-scale IoT scenario in Azure. This service is the Device Provisioning Service (DPS). The DPS is a service that connects to the IoT Hub service and the goal of the DPS is to validate the security information on a device and connect the device to the correct IoT Hub instance automatically. When dealing with hundreds or thousands of devices, it is not practical to manually configure them. The DPS exists to automate the device ...