BoF: Mender - An Open Source OTA Software Update Manager for IoT
Robust software updates on embedded Linux devices is complex, and doing robust software updates over-the-air adds to the complexity. The hardships come of course from the embedded environment which di …
| Talk Title | BoF: Mender - An Open Source OTA Software Update Manager for IoT |
| Speakers | Drew Moseley (Technical Solutions Architect, Mender.io) |
| Conference | Open Source Summit + ELC North America |
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| Location | San Diego, CA, USA |
| Date | Aug 19-23, 2019 |
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Robust software updates on embedded Linux devices is complex, and doing robust software updates over-the-air adds to the complexity. The hardships come of course from the embedded environment which differ in many ways compared to desktop or server Linux installations, where you must handle poor mobile network connectivity, sudden power-loss and never leave a device in a unusable state (brick) when doing the update OTA.In this talk, we will present Mender, an Apache 2.0 licensed end-to-end software update manager. This is a deep-dive session that will cover:Mender project ecosystemInsights to technical solutions/choicesSecurity model/approachCommunityWe will also present some of the features that are being worked on and what lays ahead for the project.
