7 posts authored by “Shaun Mulligan”

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Adding deprecation policies to balena-sdk and CLI

We now have a deprecation policy on balena-sdk and balena-cli. If you or your teams use these modules, you’ll want to upgrade to at least one of the following versions: balena-sdk (node) v12.12.0 balena-sdk-python v7.8.0 balena-cli v11.13.0 Please see our documentation for more details about the deprecation policy. We ask that you update the SDK or CLI modules to the latest version to ensure the…

May 25, 2020 / 1 min

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Deprecation of Python 2 base images in balenalib

As of January 1st, 2020, the Python Software Foundation announced the sunsetting of the Python 2. This means that from that date there will be no further improvements, even if someone were to identify a security risk. Their very strong recommendation is to upgrade to Python 3 as soon as you can. In light of this, we are announcing the deprecation of our Python 2 base images in balenalib. When are…

May 12, 2020 / 1 min

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balenaCloud ESR: Get peace of mind with only two OS updates a year

balenaCloud Extended Support Release process is here We’re excited to announce the Extended Support Release (ESR) line of operating system for Production and Enterprise fleets using balenaCloud. ESR makes it easier for at-scale fleet owners to have a more predictable OS update schedule while ensuring critical security or bug fixes are not missed. Who does ESR affect the most? This new OS release…

December 03, 2019 / 4 min

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Balena releases 26k new container base images optimized for IoT and Edge Computing

Sometimes combinatorial explosion is your friend. Today we are proud to announce the release of over 26,000 new base images under the balenalib namespace over on DockerHub. Over the last 4 years we've been maintaining and nurturing the most comprehensive set of base images for deploying containers on the edge. We've learned a lot by watching and listening to and supporting our users, such as how…

January 01, 2019 / 5 min

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Add a metrics monitoring service to your resin.io multicontainer application

With the release of multicontainer on resin.io, it's easier than ever to integrate new components and functionality into your projects. In this tutorial, we'll walk through extending our Getting Started with Multicontainer demo project to include fleet-wide metrics and monitoring capabilities using an external InfluxDB service. By the time we finish, we'll be able to monitor and trigger alerts on…

March 23, 2018 / 6 min

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Canary Rollouts on Resin.io

As one develops and builds out a new connected product or fleet of devices, the software takes on a life of its own. It grows and moves through varying phases of stability and functionality. One thing that web developers have been spoiled with over the years if their ability to selectively test features on groups of users. They can A/B or split test a new feature on a small group and quickly…

October 12, 2015 / 1 min

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Brand New Base Images

Here at resin.io, we always strive to remove pain and strife from the lives of the developers building fleets of connected devices. While supporting these developers over the last year or so to build fantastic products and projects, we noticed that our initial docker base images just didn't cut it anymore. So we did a complete overhaul of our official image range. TL;DR Checkout our Docker Hub…

August 06, 2015 / 4 min