Canonical collaborated with Microsoft to test Microsoft Azure IoT Operations on Ubuntu Core and Kubernetes.
Azure IoT Operations provides improvements in node data capture, edge-based telemetry processing and cloud-ingress.
Azure IoT Operations is a critical component of Azure’s adaptive cloud approach, which integrates hybrid, multicloud, edge and IoT environments.
Organisations building IoT with Canonical’s solutions can take full advantage of the new Azure capabilities straight out-of-the-box to start enhancing their IoT ecosystems.
Companies using Ubuntu’s IoT infrastructure platform can now access Azure IoT Operations to communicate across an entire fleet and beyond into the Azure cloud.
Azure IoT Operations is built on Kubernetes, and the reference platform for Kubernetes is Ubuntu.
Ubuntu Core provides a minimal and immutable deployment environment with support for multiple architectures and types of devices.
The security of Ubuntu Core and the robust operations of Azure IoT Operations provide consistency and ease of deployment not available with other alternatives.
Azure IoT Operations captures data from a range of devices and systems and processes them in near real-time, using industry standards like MQTT, OPC-UA and OpenTelemetry.
Ubuntu and Ubuntu Core can be coupled with Canonical’s Long Term Support offering through Ubuntu Pro to provide long-term maintenance and security updates.