This document will walk you through installing and running the essential EdgeX Foundry microservices on a RaspberryPi for testing and evaluation. This is not an officially supported way of running EdgeX Foundry, and should not be used in a production environment. This guide is for developers who want to learn EdgeX by running it as a mock gateway device on a commonly available hobbyist device.
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This guide has been tested to work on a RaspberryPi 3B+, it may work on other models of the RaspberryPi 3, but it will not work on any older or lighter variations of the RaspberryPi as it requires a 64bit capable CPU. |
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The easiest way to get EdgeX Foundry is to install the officially supported edgexfoundry snap from the snap store.
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Running EdgeX with docker-compose
EdgeX Foundry additionally supports running via a docker-compose file from the IoTech Community Developer Kit. To run that docker-compose file, install docker:
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docker-compose up -d
Building EdgeX from source
Note that running EdgeX from source is not a supported way and not recommended for production.
Install Go & Glide
To get the exact same version of Go as used by the EdgeX, install it using the go snap (note that the project currently uses Go 1.11 for the upcoming Edinburgh release, but the Delhi release was originally built with go 1.10, however go being backwards compatible you should still be able to build the Delhi release of EdgeX with go 1.11) :
sudo snap install go --channel=1.11 --classic
cat >> ~/.bashrc << 'EOF'
export GOPATH=$HOME/go
export PATH=/usr/local/go/bin:$PATH:$GOPATH/bin
EOF
source ~/.bashrc
mkdir -p $GOPATH/bin
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