2018-11: Mender.io - Software Updates for Linux Devices
Channel: foss-north
Date: 2018-11-17

In this talk Mirza Krak talks about Mender.

Robust software updates on Embedded Linux devices is complex, and doing robust software updates over-the-air adds to the complexity. The hardships come of course from the embedded environment which differ in many ways compared to desktop or server Linux installations, where you must handle poor mobile network connectivity, sudden power-loss and never leave a device in a unusable state (brick) when doing the update OTA.

There are a lot of examples that have gotten attention in media, where unstable software update solutions have caused real-life problems which could have been mitigated by a robust software solution that is able to handle the corner cases that exist in the embedded environment.

In this talk Mirza Krak will present Mender, Apache 2.0 licensed end-to-end software update solution. This is a deep-dive session that will cover:

– project ecosystem and community
– technical insights
– security insights

And will of course include a mandatory demo.

Mirza Krak is currently part of the Mender.io open source project to deploy OTA software updates to embedded Linux devices. He is an embedded Linux solution specialist with seven years of experience in the field with expertise in within Board Support Package development which ranges from hardware bring-up, boot-loaders, Linux kernel and build systems (Yocto/OE-core).

Mirza was an Mender community member for a couple of years which led to an employment in 2018 to continue to work on the Mender project full-time.

Mirza has spoken at various conferences including Embedded Linux Conference and foss-north.