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Published inDec 2023
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Dan Clark
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Dan Clark

Dan Clark is a senior developer and data engineer specializing in Microsoft technologies. He is focused on learning new AI and data technologies and training others on how to best implement those technologies. He has worked as an Azure Technical Trainer (ATT)for Microsoft and has over 25 years of experience as a Microsoft Certified Trainer. Dan has published several books and numerous articles on Microsoft technologies. He is a regular speaker at various developer and database conferences and user group meetings and enjoys interacting with the Microsoft communities.
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Device provisioning at scale

As you saw in Chapter 2, device provisioning is fairly easy when you are provisioning a few devices through IoT Hub. You just need to provide a unique ID and some kind of attestation. Attestation is proof that you are who you say you are and can be implemented using a key or certificate. Once a connection has been established, it is configured to its initial state. If this process is manually repeated for many devices, it becomes error-prone and inefficient.

Fortunately, Microsoft has provided DPS to make this process more efficient and reliable. It includes features such as secure attestation, enrollment lists, allocation policies, monitoring, logging, encryption, multi-hub support, and cross-regional support. It also supports open source SDKs in various languages to program against its APIs.

To get started with DPS, you can provision one through the Azure portal or use the CLI. The following figure shows how to provision DPS in the Azure portal...

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Published in: Dec 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781837633616

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Dan Clark

Dan Clark is a senior developer and data engineer specializing in Microsoft technologies. He is focused on learning new AI and data technologies and training others on how to best implement those technologies. He has worked as an Azure Technical Trainer (ATT)for Microsoft and has over 25 years of experience as a Microsoft Certified Trainer. Dan has published several books and numerous articles on Microsoft technologies. He is a regular speaker at various developer and database conferences and user group meetings and enjoys interacting with the Microsoft communities.
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