5 posts authored by “Alex Gonzalez”

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Using out-of-tree Linux kernel modules in your Balena application

BalenaOS is a lightweight, robust, secure, and reliable Linux-based embedded operating system designed to run containers that is available for hundreds of different device types. As is usual with Linux-based operating systems, most of the hardware drivers are contained in the operating system as kernel modules and are either automatically loaded by the operating system when required, or they can…

June 30, 2023 / 4 min

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BalenaOS secure boot and disk encryption for Generic x86_64 devices now available

BalenaOS, the lightweight, robust, secure and reliable Linux-based embedded operating system designed to run containers now supports secure boot and disk encryption for the Generic x86_64 (GPT) device type. Secure boot is a feature that ensures the integrity and authenticity of the operating system during the boot process. It is designed to protect against unauthorized and malicious software from…

June 02, 2023 / 7 min

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BalenaOS AWS Amazon Machine Images now available

balenaOS, the lightweight, robust and reliable Linux-based embedded operating system running on over 100 different boards and designed specifically to run containers is now available to run in Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). These Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) come preloaded with a cloud config application that provisions the instance into balenaCloud on boot when a config…

February 01, 2023 / 4 min

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balenaEngine aufs storage driver deprecation

The balenaEngine is a specialized container engine and a critical element in balenaOS, the lightweight, robust and reliable Linux-based embedded operating system running on over 100 different boards and designed specifically to run containers. aufs storage engine deprecation balenaEngine is a fork from Moby Project, which deprecated the use of the aufs storage driver with the 19.03.x release…

August 29, 2022 / 2 min

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Unified balenaOS releases are now available

balenaOS, the lightweight, robust and reliable Linux based embedded operating system running in over 100 different boards and designed specifically to run containers, is now (since v2.85) available in a single unified image that can be configured at runtime for development or production mode. Unified OS releases now available from balena We’re moving on from maintaining both development and…

June 29, 2022 / 3 min