Installation of Moby fails on Raspberry Pi Zero W about iotedge HOT 8 CLOSED

FWIW, no having support for Pi Zero W is a deal breaker for using Azure IoT. The form factor and price at scale are far more compelling then the runtime. While I'd prefer to use Azure IoT, it's got to support the platforms we need. 🤷‍♀

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Hi @damonbarry, thanks for the information. Do we expect that Microsoft will support v6 (armel) in the future? Or is it a specific hardware limitation that won't allow IoT Edge to ever be installed on a Raspberry Pi Zero W?

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This would be marvellous to have. In some use case a device like Pi Zero W it's cost effective!

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FWIW, no having support for Pi Zero W is a deal breaker for using Azure IoT. The form factor and price at scale are far more compelling then the runtime. While I'd prefer to use Azure IoT, it's got to support the platforms we need. 🤷‍♀

Whole-heartedly agree with you! This is too cost effective of a solution to ignore. It could provide access to a ton of untapped potential

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Moby engine was successfully installed on pi Zero following the details on this docs :
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/iot-edge/how-to-install-iot-edge?view=iotedge-2020-11

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@erwindemoel that package is built for arm32v7 (aka armhf), not v6 (aka armel). An armel package isn't provided, so Pi Zero isn't supported I'm afraid. Even if it was, you'd run into the same problem for IoT Edge packages and containers, which only support armhf.

Here's some information about Microsoft's distribution of moby-engine. I'd expect to see more details over time.

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@erwindemoel armel support is not on our roadmap, but we're continually evaluating the platforms for which we'll provide "tier 1" support; it could happen if there's enough momentum, and if we overcome the technical hurdles.

One big hurdle I know about for armel is that .NET Core doesn't support it (see dotnet/coreclr#10605). Both Edge Agent and Edge Hub run in .NET Core.

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So after managing to install moby -which should be possible i understood- i really would like to get some "experience sharing", if it really works "end-2-end", i.e. getting the iotedge runtime running, getting some docker images to run. I wonder if the hardware specs are sufficient.

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