October-31st-2018, 01:25 PM
(October-31st-2018, 11:57 AM)Armin@netPI Wrote: Well Johannes,
two things need to be said.
1.We have the product netPI I would call is more a consumer product. Basically it is a Docker Host only, not more not less. With the coming firmware version we will be updating portainer to the very latest version and then customer can may use the official API https://portainer.readthedocs.io/en/stable/API.html to do anything a manual mouse click can do today. This allows you to update indeed all your netPI containers running. Of course you need to know their IP address at least and in case of a real remote access also a routing path over the internet.
Grouping devices and managing multiple Docker Host devices is called Docker Swarm. This is not supported by netPI cause it needs console access to create a docker manager and certificates and then nodes. Portainer can manage already swarmed nodes, but not creating them.
At the current stage there is no plan to change the update procedure for the OS as we have established it today using an USB stick locally. Since 90% of the software is in containers, an OS Kernel update that embeds a security risk for example is really rare.
2. We have a consistent management system with our coming software release for our professional edge devices under schedule. On those machines Microsofts Azure IoT Edge is running together with a management system in the cloud. When released then this is exactly what you are looking for. The devices register themselves in the cloud, you can see them, deploy software on them (by the way Microsofts IoT Edge is Docker based) and do also OS updates.
3. At higher quantities you can get netPI without SD card and you have the whole software under your control. Then it is up to you what you realize.
Regards
Armin
Interesting! Do you have any more information about #2? Like expected release date, price models, and if it will be possible to host the management system by ourselves etc.
