Ubuntu Core 22 is now available – optimised for IoT and embedded devices

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Balena.io

#IoT Management #IoT Security #IoT Platform 10 social mentions

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Mender.io

I've never used anything in the product space, but I've read through some of the docs because IoT deployment interests me in the context of most network devices having terrible deployment and update strategies. My favorite sales pitch was always Mender (https://mender.io) because it can be as simple as .img files and slice based booting. Unfortunately they changed their pricing a couple years ago and went from a hobbyist friendly pricing structure where you could scale down to $120 / year to charging for scale and features where the minimum cost to use delta updates is $3k per year. If you want something like mutual TLS authentication it's "call us" pricing. When I looked at Balena I thought the whole architecture looked like a mess of complexity and containers when a simple .img would suffice for most use cases (IMO). It's also too expensive to get into without having a well understood target market for whatever IoT product you're planning to build. IE: No hobbyists or enthusiasts that just want to learn without having something sellable planned out. IMHO all of the IoT deployment solutions charging tons of money for features <i>and</i> scale are a good example of where platforms like Cloudflare could reshape the industry. I think by going "all in" on Cloudflare Pages/Functions/Workers, etc. Someone could build a "Cloudflare Native" platform that can afford to dominate the unserved (low-end) portion of those markets, but with the ability to scale up to accommodate the large deployments these companies are trying to attract as customers. I would kill for firewalls and switches that use a slice based, watchdog monitored deployment system like Mender has, but with pricing that's closer to the reality of the small business world.

#IoT Management #IoT Security #Data Dashboard 9 social mentions

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Balena Sound

First 10 devices on balena are free, its used by many thousands of hobbyists. For example balenaSound is very popular, for multi-room audio with rapsberry pi's https://sound.balenalabs.io/ There is also balenaHub, which hosts many community projects and introduces the concept of "open fleets", bring your device and join the fleet, instead of managing it yourself https://hub.balena.io/fleets Disclosure: I am an engineer at balena.

#Audio & Music #Audio Player #Music Player 11 social mentions