balena
Powerful IoT device management made simple
balenaCloud is a hosted platform for developing, deploying, managing and scaling fleets of IoT Linux devices. It addresses the problem of updating, monitoring and maintaining many remote devices individually by providing a container-based stack with OTA updates, Linux OS updates, a full API and SDK, and a dashboard for fleet health, logs, secure tunnels and release pinning.
The wider balena product set includes openBalena (free and open source fleet management software), balenaOS (a container-optimized OS for embedded devices), balenaEngine (a container engine for IoT based on Moby technology), balenaEtcher (for flashing SD cards and USB drives), and balenaHub. The platform supports over 80 device types, with a Custom Device Support program for other hardware, and offers security features including secure boot, disk encryption, SBOM tracking, vulnerability management, failsafe updates, and user access options such as 2FA, TOTP, OpenID Connect and SAML SSO.
balenaCloud is packaged with a free plan covering the first 10 devices, plus paid editions (Prototype, Pilot, Production) with monthly or yearly billing, included devices and users, per-device overage charges, and additional user seats by role. A dedicated single-tenant instance and custom device support are available on request.
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