This week we are announcing the preview support of Microsoft Azure SQL Edge on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Developers can now easily extend their existing SQL Server 2019 offerings for RHEL and Red Hat Openshift to IoT edge gateways and devices for consistent edge to cloud data management.
Azure SQL Edge is a small-footprint, edge-optimized database delivered as an Open Containers Initiative (OCI) compatible container for connected, disconnected or hybrid environments and supports the latest generation of the Podman container management tools on RHEL 8. Features include built-in data streaming and time series, with in-database machine learning and graph features for low-latency analytics as well as capabilities for machine learning at the edge to optimize bandwidth, reaction time, and cost. The availability of Azure SQL Edge on RHEL expands the existing ecosystem of tools, applications, frameworks, and libraries for building and running containers on the edge.
Because Azure SQL Edge is packaged as a container, it is easy to deploy and update on RHEL. You can pull the latest image down from an internal repository directly to your edge devices, from the official Microsoft container repository, or manage everything directly from Azure. A basic installation for an Azure SQL Edge developer edition on RHEL is as simple as running:
$ podman run --cap-add SYS_PTRACE -e 'ACCEPT_EULA=1' -e 'MSSQL_SA_PASSWORD=StrongPassword' -p 1433:1433 --name azuresqledge -d mcr.microsoft.com/azure-sql-edge
That’s it! The Azure SQL Edge database is up and running and you are ready to start developing your RHEL-based project on the edge.
It needs to be noted that in the connected deployment scenario, Azure SQL Edge is deployed as a module of Azure IoT Edge. Azure IoT Edge’s platform support documentation states RHEL as Tier 2 systems. This means RHEL is compatible with Azure IoT Edge but is not actively tested or maintained by Microsoft.
To learn more about Azure SQL Edge visit the product page or watch the latest customer evidence stories
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