AWS IoT Greengrass recently got Docker support; a much needed addition to the suite of edge tooling available at our disposal. As with most new IoT Greengrass feature, it can be a bit bumped to get setup with. I would know, I fought through the setup process on the day of release and ran into a couple quirks that I figure I’ll share with the world in the form of an unofficial guide.
Dive into Detect; a sub feature of Device Defender Detect that allows you to craft your own detection profiles using both cloud-side and device-side metrics.
For this deployment we’ll be describing how to setup Greengrass Core on a Raspberry Pi. This is part of a bigger post called Greener Grass.
Deploy a learning environment called Greener Grass that effectively boostraps all the AWS IoT and Greengrass configuration for you. This allows you to be able to learn about the advanced IoT features in a friendly & repeatable way.
Learn how to deploy an AWS IoT Greengrass Core node onto a Raspberry Pi with AWS CloudFormation.
Serverless Certificate Vending Machine is a pattern for managing AWS IoT Devices in a secure and repeatable way. Learn how to deploy your own CVM and onboard new devices.
Amazon Alexa controller for AWS IoT connected devices. Learn how to safely expose an embedded ESP8266 over MQTT in order to control an RGB LED.
Take control of a magical box in AWS Sumerian using an ESP8266 embedded micro controller connected to AWS IoT
Deploy a Private VPN to EC2 by Triggering a CloudFormation deploy using your AWS IoT Button.