SBCX-TN-003: Deploying modules to Azure IoT Edge-enabled SBCX with Visual Studio Code

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This technical note was validated against specific versions of hardware and software. It may not work with other versions.

History

Version	Date	Notes
1.0.0	August 2019	First public release

Introduction

This Technical Note (TN for short) is based on this previous TN: SBCX-TN-002: Running Microsoft Azure IoT Edge runtime. As such, SBCX-TN-002 is a prerequisite to complete this TN.

The goal of this document is to show how to deploy modules to a Azure IoT Edge-enabled SBCX board. It is recalled that, according to Microsoft documentation, modules are

the smallest computation units managed by IoT Edge, and can contain Microsoft services (such as Azure Stream Analytics), 3rd-party services or your own solution-specific code.

There are different methods to deploy such modules to the IoT Edge-enabled devices. This TN will describe how to use Visual Studio Code (VSC) to carry out this operation on SBCX single-board computer.

Setting up VSC

To set up Visual Studio Code, the [Azure IoT Tools extension package https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vsciot-vscode.azure-iot-tools&ssr=false#overview] has to be installed.