iotedgehubdev 0.5.0

Azure IoT EdgeHub Dev Tool

Azure IoT EdgeHub Dev Tool

The Azure IoT EdgeHub Dev Tool provide a local development experience with a simulator for creating, developing, testing, running, and debugging Azure IoT Edge modules and solutions.

• The bits/code of Edge module running on simulator and IoT Edge Runtime are same.
• The Edge solution could be run with the simulator locally without pushing image and creating IoT Edge deployment.
• The credential needed to run Edge solution on simulator is IoT Edge Device Connectionstring. And IoT Hub Connectionstring is not needed.
• It helps to debug the module on the host (not in container) with the EdgeHub

The following table compares the steps needed to run the solution on the IoT Edge Runtime and iotedgehubdev tool.

	IoT Edge Runtime	iotedgehubdev
Device Credential Needed	YES	YES
IoT Hub Credential Needed	YES	NO
Build Image	YES	YES
Push Image	YES	NO
Create Deployment	YES	NO
Support native debug scenario	No	YES

Installing

1. Install Docker CE on Windows, macOS or Linux.
2. Install Python (2.7/3.5+) and Pip
3. Install iotedgehubdev by running below command in your terminal

   pip install --upgrade iotedgehubdev
   

Quickstart

1. Setup

   iotedgehubdev setup -c <edge-device-connection-string>
   

2. Start/stop an IoT Edge solution in simulator

   iotedgehubdev start -d <path/to/deployment manifest>
   iotedgehubdev stop
   

3. Start and debug a single module natively

   1. Start the module with specific input(s)

      iotedgehubdev start -i <module-inputs>
      

      For example: iotedgehubdev start -i "input1,input2"

   2. Output the module credential environment variables

      iotedgehubdev modulecred
      

   3. Start the module natively with the environment variables got from previous step

   4. Send message to the module through RESTful API.

      For example: curl --header "Content-Type: application/json" --request POST --data '{"inputName": "input1","data": "hello world"}' http://localhost:53000/api/v1/messages

Other resources

• Azure IoT Edge for Visual Studio Code
• Azure IoT Edge Dev CLI Tool

Data/Telemetry

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Contributing

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