Ask HN: Favorite IoT Fleet Management Tool/Service

2 points by onlytrash 3 years ago | 2 comments

I am looing for a suitable fleet management service - the application in use right now is Balena, but for my very little and cheap devices it is just too expensive. I mostly need OTA updates and the ability to update the core OS (rasobiaN). I also took a look at ubuntu core, easy to install and I guess I could build a service page myself that logs in, deploys a docker and so on ... are there any similiar services out there I missed (saw google, ms, dell, ibm, particle, fracctal ...)?

fyrepuffs 3 years ago |

Take a look at Pantavisor and Pantacor Hub. Open source and enables device fleet updates, device state management and more. Uses its own control plane and container runtime called Pantavisor that manages and runs Linux containers, and converts Docker container too.

https://www.pantavisor.io/

https://pantacor.com/products/what-is-pantacor/

feedback and contributions are more than welcome :=)

manuel2258 3 years ago |

I'm currently doing research on this topic and we internally settled on hawkBit and SWUpdate. Both are OpenSource and Feature rich, however ment for the more classic bare metal linux usecase, which means you will need a custom yocto OS.