How can I onboard my own Linux device to netFIELD Cloud?

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How can I onboard my own Linux device to netFIELD Cloud?

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If you want to manage your edge device with netFIELD Cloud, you need to install a netFIELD runtime on your device, so that it can connect to the netFIELD Cloud service. netFIELD offers different types of runtime environments - see Overview - netFIELD OS Runtime Environments for an overview and feature comparison. 

For edge gateways produced by Hilscher, these devices are delivered with a preinstalled netFIELD OS. If you want to onboard another device, you might want to check our netFIELD Extension for Linux. Here is a tutorial on how to install and onboard a Linux device to netFIELD Cloud: Tutorial: Onboarding a Raspberry Pi to netFIELD