Module 1: Environment setup for Greengrass - Amazon IoT Greengrass
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Module 1: Environment setup for Greengrass

This module shows you how to get an out-of-the-box Raspberry Pi, Amazon EC2 instance, or other device ready to be used by Amazon IoT Greengrass as your Amazon IoT Greengrass core device.

Tip

Or, to use a script that sets up your core device for you, see Quick start: Greengrass device setup.

This module should take less than 30 minutes to complete.

Before you begin, read the requirements for this tutorial. Then, follow the setup instructions in one of the following topics. Choose only the topic that applies to your core device type.

Topics
Note

To learn how to use Amazon IoT Greengrass running in a prebuilt Docker container, see Running Amazon IoT Greengrass in a Docker container.