Azure provisioning

Provisioning for Microsoft Azure

This script implements the “custom” Azure provisioning method, using self-generated root and signer certificates. It is intended to be invoked from iotprovison, but can also be run stand-alone.

class iotprovision.azure.custom_provision.AzureCustomProvisioner(root_ca_cert_file, signer_ca_key_file, signer_ca_cert_file, device_csr_file, device_cert_file, force_new_device_certificate=False)

Bases: object

Azure specific provisioning steps

Parameters:

  • root_ca_cert_file (str (path)) – Path to file containing root Certificate Authority certificate file

  • signer_ca_key_file (str (path)) – Path to file containing signer Certificate Authority private key

  • signer_ca_cert_file (str (path)) – Path to file containing signer Certificate Authority certificate file

  • device_csr_file (str (path)) – Path to the file to write the generated Certificate Signer Request to

  • device_cert_file (str (path)) – Path to the file to write the generated device certificate to

  • force_new_device_certificate (boolean) – Force re-creating already existing device certificate

provision(fwinterface)

Do the actual provisioning.

This will generate a device certificate, and save it along with the CA signer certificate in WINC flash Returns the “Thing name” (Subject Key Identifier) if successful. Generated certificates and thing name are saved to files as well.

Parameters:

fwinterface (ProvisioningFirmwareInterface) – Firmware fwinterface driver

Returns:

“Thing name” (Subject Key Identifier) if successful, else None

Return type:

str