Category “fota”

IoT Device Management Explained

Oct 20, 2020

Posted by Trina Watt in fota, foundriesfactory, security, updates

Secure OTA updates and a unified software platform are the keys.

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How Devices Use Docker

Oct 9, 2020

Posted by Andy Doan in lmp, fota

A fairly common question I get asked is how Factory devices securely pull container images from our Docker Registry, hub.foundries.io. It's kind of interesting, so I thought I'd explain.

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LMP Container Orchestration Roadmap - Episode 2

Apr 17, 2020

Posted by Andy Doan in lmp, fota

Back in December, we laid out a roadmap for container orchestration. Then the dust settled from the Docker spinoff. What we now know is that Docker Apps is an inactive project. tldr; It's not a big deal for our customers and they are going to automagically get something better very soon:

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FoundriesFactory TUF Keys Rotation

Mar 5, 2020

Posted by Marc Streeter in fota

Built on a vision that the latest software is the most secure, software updates are central to the FoundriesFactory security story. What happens, however, when software delivery is compromised? Is recovery complicated? Enter TUF key rotation!

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LMP Container Orchestration Roadmap

Dec 4, 2019

Posted by Andy Doan in lmp, fota

Container orchestration in the embedded space lacks a good story and vision. This article explains where we currently are and what we have planned for the future.

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FoundriesFactory: Modern tooling for Embedded Linux

Nov 18, 2019

Posted by Tyler Baker in fota, microplatform, foundriesfactory, toradex, lmp, iot, security

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Docker App Support in Aktualizr

Sep 23, 2019

Posted by Andy Doan in fota

Aktualizr has gained support for Docker Apps. This is a powerful feature, but hasn't really been described well ... until now!

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Introducing Aktualizr-lite

Sep 8, 2019

Posted by Andy Doan in fota

Earlier this year, I found myself pushing the idea of an "anonymous mode" for the Aktualizr project which is the OTA agent running in the LMP. This turned into "aktualizr-lite" and has recently become the default OTA agent used by the LMP. This article explains what aktualizr-lite is and why we are using it.

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Adding a REST API to OTA Connect

Aug 9, 2018

Posted by Andy Doan in fota

The OTA blog series left users with a secured OTA Connect server. This article will describe how you can deploy an easy-to-use REST API to manage your devices.

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Securing OTA Connect

Jul 12, 2018

Posted by Andy Doan in fota

Part three of this blog series showed how to deploy an OTA Connect service in Google Kubernetes Engine that had a few security holes. This article will describe how to secure it.

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