Run Linux edge applications on Windows PCs and servers with EFLOW
Run Linux edge applications on Windows PCs and servers with EFLOW.- Community submission by Editor (9to6linux) on
WSL isn't the only official way to run Linux code on Windows systems. Find out how to take advantage of Azure IoT Edge for Linux on Windows.
Microsoft has been clear for some time that the edge is as important to it as the cloud, with CEO Satya Nadella regularly talking about "the intelligent cloud and the intelligent edge." Much of its focus has been on bringing Azure to that edge, in all its many forms. Part of that is support for Linux containers and devices as part of Azure IoT Edge.
There's a lot of Linux-based edge code out there, tooling for processing and managing your data, so it makes sense to reuse that on your own hardware. Microsoft has made it easy to work with both Windows and Linux code on its hardware, with containers its key deployment model.
It's now launched an alternative that's intended for just that purpose: EFLOW.