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Finding a good bare-metal/IoT management solution for a hobbyist and clearing up my mental model.

Mender.io Checkmk
  1. Mender is a secure and robust end-to-end over-the-air (OTA) software update manager for IoT devices. Mender makes it easy to deploy updates to a large number of devices by providing efficiency and risk tolerant OTA deployments.
    So far I've come across checkmk, which seems like an amazing tool for monitoring, but as far as I'm aware, it's only for that. You can't actually affect your systems with it. Then I tried openBalena, which seems really interesting, as it allows for pre-baking images, and deploying your apps inside of containers, but for monitoring it needs another solution to complement it, and I don't see how you can actually manage your cluster, aside from deploying apps to it. Upswift seems to do everything I need, but it looks like it's closed source and pretty expensive. Mender would be a really cool solution for updating in a safe way, but I think it lacks everything else. I know about the OpenStack ecosystem, and that might be what I need, but it's huge and I don't know where to look first.

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

  2. Checkmk - the software for effective IT monitoring
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Freemium
    • Free Trial
    • €600.0 / Annually
    So far I've come across checkmk, which seems like an amazing tool for monitoring, but as far as I'm aware, it's only for that. You can't actually affect your systems with it. Then I tried openBalena, which seems really interesting, as it allows for pre-baking images, and deploying your apps inside of containers, but for monitoring it needs another solution to complement it, and I don't see how you can actually manage your cluster, aside from deploying apps to it. Upswift seems to do everything I need, but it looks like it's closed source and pretty expensive. Mender would be a really cool solution for updating in a safe way, but I think it lacks everything else. I know about the OpenStack ecosystem, and that might be what I need, but it's huge and I don't know where to look first.

    #Monitoring Tools #Log Management #Incident Management 53 social mentions

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