BoF: Open Source Fleet and Device Management
summary
Discussion inventories real tools and gaps: roughly three usable update backends discovered (two fully open source, one open‑core), Mender client and server are open source while some Mender components are closed and its managed-server repo shows ~71 stars, and SWUpdate, Hawkbit and balena only cover parts of the problem. Practical building blocks noted: MQTT + Grafana + InfluxDB for telemetry, WireGuard and websockets for remote access, plus the need for a composable update state machine and device registry. Outcome: shared Google Doc and a bridged Matrix channel created to continue work.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Open source Fleet & device mgmt
- 1:45Defining device & Fleet Management
- 6:00Integrating open source components
- 13:04Experiences with open source solutions
- 19:37Commercial platforms' limits
- 22:31Modular Fleet Management components
- 26:05Communication & monitoring
- 32:06Operational challenges & specs
- 37:06Open discussion & future
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