Over-the-air (OTA) Software Updates without Downtime or Service Disruption - Ingve Vormestrand
Channel: The Linux Foundation
Date: 2017-02-28

Over-the-air (OTA) Software Updates without Downtime or Service Disruption - Ingve Vormestrand, IncludeOS

Millions of consumers are at risk from security vulnerabilities caused by out-of-date software. In theory all devices should update automatically, but in practice, updating is often complicated, time-consuming and requires manual intervention from users.

IncludeOS is a unikernel operating system that enables over-the-air (OTA) software updates of connected devices without downtime or service disruption.

The talk starts with a brief introduction to unikernels, their capabilities and how they can be very beneficial for IoT products from security, performance and operational perspectives. Then we give an overview of the IncludeOS Live Update functionality, which we use to demonstrate an atomic update of a device using Mender.io.

About Ingve Vormestrand
Ingve is a developer at IncludeOS, where he works on the implementation of a new unikernel operating system. | | His professional experience includes web and mobile app development, and he is very enthusiastic about open source.