Category “lmp”

Taking ownership of device gateway PKI

Jan 20, 2021

Posted by Andy Doan in lmp

Talking about security requires precision. However, precise language can be hard to digest for even most technical audiences. What follows is what I call a "pepperoni pizza" article. It's nobody's first choice, but most everyone can eat it.

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Fiotest - part II

Nov 20, 2020

Posted by Andy Doan in lmp

Part II of the fiotest series series will focus on some examples of what you can do with fiotest. Hopefully you'll find some inspiration and things you can copy/paste into your own tests.

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Fiotest - part I

Nov 1, 2020

Posted by Andy Doan in lmp

We've been using a tool called "fiotest" for months now, but haven't really explained the what, why, and how. This is the first part of a small series of articles to explain fiotest.

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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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What's a Target?

May 14, 2020

Posted by Andy Doan in lmp

A Foundries Factory is a unique new concept. Conceptualizing a Factory can sometimes seem difficult. I've encountered this enough to see a common problem - we are looking at things the wrong way.

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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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Configuration Management of Devices

Apr 1, 2020

Posted by Andy Doan in lmp

Over the last month our engineering team has been working on a way to provide our customers an easy-to-use mechanism for managing on-device configuration. The result is a new project we call "fioconfig".

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Building 32-bit Arm Containers

Feb 25, 2020

Posted by Andy Doan in lmp, demos

We strongly believe in the power of containers for embedded development at Foundries.io. However, in a world of buzzword bingo like Kubernetes, serverless, and Edge, people working on 32 bit Arm hardware would be right to feel neglected. This article discusses one way we are helping: building armhf containers efficiently.

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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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