Hands-On Industrial Internet of Things

Step 2 – configuring Greengrass

Greengrass only supports Ubuntu Linux and AWS Linux, so we need an environment in which we can install the Linux OS.

If we do not have the current version of Linux, we can use Vagrant to prepare our environment.

Vagrant is a way to start a virtualized environment with just a few commands. First, we need to download Vagrant from https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html. We can then run the following script from the command console:

$ vagrant init ubuntu/xenial64$ vagrant up$ vagrant ssh

Vagrant will mount the current directory to the /vagrant directory so that we can easily access the greengrass directory and copy the contents to a local folder:

$ sudo cp -R /vagrant/greengrass /greengrass

We can now unpack ...