AppHostModule

The purpose of the AppHostingModule is to be able to host external applications directly on the edge device.

The capabilities are:

• Hosting of one or more applications (only .net supported currently)

• Handles application lifecycle, by starting, stopping and monitoring applications

• Download application versions from blob storage (cloud)

• Perform sha256 checksum validatation of downloaded content, to ensure integrity

• Relays logs from the applications (for cloud upload)

NB: When updating an application to a new version, it is necessary to run the direct command "DownloadApplication" to trigger the download and activate the new application version. It does not happen automatically.