Welcome to our latest news, updates and tips to help you accelerate your IoT or Edge product design and simplify security for lifetime with FoundriesFactory cloud/DevOps service. Over the past months we've been busy with new and existing customers building solutions for robotics, EV chargers, home control, smart shipping containers, and industrial manufacturing. We look forward to sharing some amazing case studies in the coming months.
Our goal is to meet all of our customers' IoT software needs from a single vendor, while providing choice of customization and substitution to deliver the best result - no walled gardens here! We are excited to be the only company delivering an end-to-end product-based platform for the IoT/Edge lifecycle from OS development and testing, to secure manufacturing and on-boarding, to lifetime maintenance with secure OTA device and fleet management.
Featured: Future-Proofed IoT Devices
Security is never a "complete" effort. Many of today's industrial, automotive, and infrastructure products will still be operational in 10 to 20 years. Increasingly, industry standards for security and safety include the requirement to update products in the event of a cyber-attack, perhaps based on a newly discovered CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) in the future. Often these attacks target outdated software on older fleets.
As part of our continuing efforts to deliver a secure and updatable Linux platform for building IoT and Edge devices, we recently announced SystemReady IR support on FoundriesFactory. FoundriesFactory enables you to manage your product software for years or even decades on Intel and Arm projects. We support Intel firmware updates and Arm's Project Cassini, and we ensure that all software on a product, including the secure boot software and Trusted Execution Environment, can be securely updated over the product lifetime. See our SystemReady press release with support from Arm, NXP, ADLINK and Arduino.
Tips on Working With Containers on Embedded Devices
What does Little League Baseball have to do with developer workflows? Turns out, there's an applicable connection here. Thanks to Little Leaguers, software engineer Andy Doan had an aha moment that led him to devise two big tips for working more efficiently with containers and applications. Read more to learn the "-H trick" and the "bind mount trick."
Products often need to talk to third party services like AWS. Many times, the best bad option available is to copy some type of API key to the device's file system. This is not a secure way to getting data to a device. In fact, it's possible to provision devices without API keys. Find out how in our blog post.
FoundriesFactory, the Yocto Project, GPLv2 & GPLv3
The Yocto Project provides a set of tools to help with Open Source Software compliance. FoundriesFactory is configured to use some of these tools by default and provides a good starting point when working with license requirements. Read our blog to learn how to configure the Linux microPlatform (LmP) to avoid installing packages under the GPLv3 family license and to deploy the artifacts required by the GPLv2 family license.
The effect of enterprise computing on the Edge has initially been seen in application updates. The use of enterprise container and orchestration technologies bring exciting new options for powerful Edge computing in applications as diverse as robotics, industrial IoT, telecoms and autonomous vehicles. OS updates on secured devices present new challenges, particularly when you have a customized platform. We designed the Linux microPlatform to support OTA kernel and OS updates with ostree and Aktualizr-Lite. The final step is updating the secure boot firmware or BIOS itself. FoundriesFactory supports firmware updates on x86 products, and now, with our latest V84 release of the Linux microPlatform, we are also enabling our customers to safely update SPL, OP-TEE, Arm TF, and U-Boot on their Arm-based devices. Our customers can now securely update ALL the software on their IoT and Edge products, helping protect manufacturers and users from cyberattacks for the lifetime of their devices.
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