Microsoft Azure Documentation Links

Microsoft Azure has a rich set of documentation, including architecture guides, tutorials, and how-to articles. Here are areas of the Microsoft Azure documentation that may be useful for the ThingWorx Azure IoT Hub and ThingWorx Azure OPC UA integration, from the more general to specifics:

• Introduction to Azure — Learning Paths

• Azure IoT documentation

• Azure Industrial IoT Platform Overview topics in GitHub — Azure Industrial IoT Platform and The Industrial IoT Platform and its Components

• Azure Industrial-IoT (IIoT) GitHub repository Use this site to log issues with Azure IIoT.

• Azure IoT Hub Documentation

◦ What is Azure IoT Hub?

◦ Quickstart: Send telemetry from a device to an IoT hub and monitor it with the Azure CLI

◦ Tutorial: Use the Azure CLI and Azure portal to configure IoT Hub message routing

◦ Tutorial: Part 2 - View the routed messages

◦ Tutorial: Use a simulated device to test connectivity with your IoT Hub

◦ Consumer groups

• Azure PowerShell documentation

• General references for setting up IoT Edge devices and Edge modules in Azure IoT:

◦ Understand the Azure IoT Edge runtime and its architecture

◦ Quickstarts to create a device on an IoT Hub using Azure Cloud Shell — Quickstart: Deploy your first IoT Edge module to a virtual Windows device. There is also a Quickstart for a Linux device, Quickstart: Deploy your first IoT Edge module to a virtual Linux device.

◦ How to Set Up a Local Gateway for Industrial Scenarios

◦ Troubleshoot your IoT Edge device

◦ Built-in troubleshooting functionality

• Use Azure IoT Tools for Visual Studio Code to send and receive messages between your device and your Azure IoT Hub

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) — Microservices architecture on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

• Azure Industrial IoT Helm Charts — Helm Hub - azure-industrial-iot

• Azure IoT Edge documentation

◦ Understand extended offline capabilities for IoT Edge devices, modules, and child devices

◦ Azure IoT Edge and OPC-UA — Use Microsoft Azure OPC Components

◦ Run as an Azure IoT Edge module in the article, "Run OPC Publisher"

◦ Getting started with OPC-UA on Azure IoT Edge

◦ Configure an IoT Edge device to act as a transparent gateway

• Quickstart to create a device on an IoT Hub using Azure Cloud Shell: Deploy your first IoT Edge module to a virtual Windows device and also for Linux, Quickstart: Deploy your first IoT Edge module toa virtual Linux device

• PowerShell commands to interact with an IoT Hub at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/az.iothub/?view=azps-4.5.0

• Visual Studio Code extension created by Microsoft to interact with IoT Hub (IIoT Toolkit), called Azure IoT extension for Visual Studio Code : https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vsciot-vscode.azure-iot-tools.

Here are links to the Microsoft Azure and other documentation for procedures related to setting up the ThingWorx Azure Industrial IoT OPC UA integration:

• Adding an AKS cluster with Azure Industrial IoT Components on top of script deployment

• Quickstart: Create a public IP address using the Azure Portal

• Install and Set Up kubectl

• Installing Helm

• Deploy ingress-nginx Helm chart

• Deploy cert-manager Helm chart

• Create ClusterIssuer resource

• Using configuration in Azure Key Vault

• Update Redirect URIs of web App Registration

• For information about telemtry message batch processing, scroll down to the section, , "OPC UA Pub/Sub Mode" in this topic. Note that this topic is a work in progress.

Here are links to other articles specific to tools used in the integration and Microsoft documents that may be of interest:

• Getting started with OPC-UA on Azure IoT Edge, by Sander van de Velde, a Microsoft MVP Azure | IoT Platform Architect

• Building microservices on Azure

• Sample REST calls to download and use for testing with Postman in the Industrial-IoT/docs/media/ subdirectory of the Microsoft Azure IIoT GitHub repository.