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FoundriesFactory TUF Keys Rotation

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!

FoundriesFactory: Modern tooling for Embedded Linux

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

Docker App Support in Aktualizr

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!

Introducing Aktualizr-lite

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.

Adding a REST API to OTA Connect

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.

Securing OTA Connect

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.

Deploying OTA Connect

Posted by Andy Doan in fota

Continuing with the OTA blog series part one and part two, this article shows you how to deploy OTA Connect using the OTA Community Edition into Google's Kubernetes Engine (GKE). After completion of these instructions, you'll have an OTA Connect server available on the internet with a single QEMU device registered to it.

What Is OTA Connect

Posted by Andy Doan in fota

Continuing with the OTA blog series, this article will explain what OTA Connect is and how it implements the TUF/Uptane/OSTree specifications.

How We Chose a Software Update System

Posted by Andy Doan in fota

One of the first big decisions we had to make for the Linux microPlatform was our Over-The-Air Update (OTA) strategy. This decision required a lot of time, meetings, beer, and coffee. This article is the first of a small series explaining our recommended approach to OTA for the LMP. This article explains how and why we ultimately chose OTA Connect and its open source deployment project OTA Community Edition.

Zephyr microPlatform, Zephyr OTA via DFU/mcumgr

Posted in microplatform

In this blog we describe how to use the Zephyr microPlatform and the in-tree Zephyr samples to build, flash and perform an over the air (OTA) update of a Zephyr application over Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE). This demonstration uses the DFU support within Zephyr provided by mcumgr.

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