Running an IoT Edge module in a Kubernetes Cluster (or as a standalone container).

A few months back, I did an experiment to see what it would take to run an Azure IoT Edge module image in a Kubernetes cluster independent of the IoT Edge's runtime.  There's no (known) use case for this, I was just curious.  Containers are inherently redeployable, so I wanted to see if I could move an Azure IoT Edge module into a pod on a Kubernetes cluster.  

 

I wrote up my findings in a Gist.

Summary: You need to set up certificates like you are deploying a leaf device, and you need to manually manage the module, but it works.   I ran the module as a pod in Kubernetes, but this could also be done for any container deployment system.