Show HN: Resin.io – Push Updates to Linux Devices with Git and Docker

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by craig • 11 years ago

62 26 11 years ago

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winstonford2• 11 years ago

Can I push to a beagle bone black?

Reason I ask is last I checked Docker is only for 64 bit processors, and beagle bone black runs a 32 bit processor.

alexandros10• 11 years ago

We support Raspberry Pi and BeagleBone Black. We've gotten Docker working on ARM to be able to do this.

winstonford2• 11 years ago

That is wicked. Nice work.

bsmith• 11 years ago

This looks fantastic! We are already using BeagleBone Black, so I plan on looking into this very soon.

A couple questions from a potential future customer:

* What are the bandwidth requirements for your agent?

* Has your agent had any issues with restrictive firewalls?

* How long until you think you'll have the container diff functionality finished? (We are on cellular connections mostly, so bandwidth is somewhat expensive.)

* How much funding/runway do you guys have? What would happen if you guys had to close down the business for whatever reason?

* Pricing? (Couldn't find it on your site.)

alexandros10• 11 years ago

Hi there,

Diffs and other improvements that affect bandwidth requirements should be complete in the next two months, before we announce pricing. Our agent requires standard web ports, so a firewall that allows web browsing should allow a device to connect. We are funded by a well-known Silicon Valley VC, this will be announced in a few weeks.

Pricing isn't finalised yet (will be announced in 2 months) but drop me an email at alexandros@resin.io and I'd love to let you know our current thinking.

tjpd• 11 years ago

This is great - having a fullly fledged, containerized device ready to go is awesome. How do you keep the underlying OS & container mgmt layers up to date?

alexandros10• 11 years ago

We use passive/active partitions, very similar to how CoreOS does OS updates on their servers.

andrepadez2• 11 years ago

can you please describe a possible use-case? I'm not sure i grasp the utility of this. Thanks

alexandros10• 11 years ago

We have users doing smart locks, digital signage, Point of Services systems, logistics, amongst many other use cases. More on this here -- https://resin.io/usecases/

andrepadez2• 11 years ago

thanks

shadeless3• 11 years ago

This looks very interesting! On the homepage under supported project types it has: Nodejs, Docker, Ruby, Python and Java. Would it be possible to get Erlang running on the device (using http://nerves-project.org/) ?

I guess if I used Docker it wouldn't matter what language is running in the container, but it would be nice to have that confirmed.

lolo_• 11 years ago

As you rightly say, with Docker any language can be used, so it's certainly possible to use Erlang!

shadeless3• 11 years ago

Thanks!

alexandros10• 11 years ago

If it runs in a Docker container, it runs on Resin.io. Try it and let us know how it goes. If you put the source up, we'll link it from the docs.

shadeless3• 11 years ago

Awesome, thanks!

falcolas• 11 years ago

Note to devs, the fixed header on your site covers half the page on mobile devices.

alexandros10• 11 years ago

Apologies, we'll get this corrected.

monkeytypewritr• 11 years ago

Hi there!

Is there a timeline for Intel Edison support?

thanks!

alexandros10• 11 years ago

Hey there! We're very close to Edison support, hopefully by end of Feb.

aefo2• 11 years ago

Looks great. Do you plan to contribute changes to upstream projects (e.g. Docker for ARM), or open source other parts you have developed?

aefo2• 11 years ago

Looks great.

- Do you plan to contribute changes to upstream projects (e.g. Docker for ARM), or open source other parts you have developed?

- Will you have a pricing model / level that's works for small scale private projects?

Thanks

alexandros10• 11 years ago

We open source quite a bit and contribute back whenever we interface with an open source project. You can see our contributions at https://github.com/resin-io

Olsenius2• 11 years ago

Will be interesting to test. Do you guys have a timeline for Raspberry pi 2 model B support?

alexandros10• 11 years ago

We're working on it as we speak, should have it within Feb.

Olsenius2• 11 years ago

Thanks for the fast reply. Will order me some Rpi2 to test with.

Does resin.io handle the differences in GPIO-pins btw? I have both rev1 and rev2 Raspberry today, and make sure to not use the GPIO-pins that they have mixed around between the different revisions.

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