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BalenaOS on VMware in 2025
Why a VM? Even though balenaOS is optimized for running containers on edge devices, there are some compelling use cases for running the OS in a virtual machine: Testing: If you don’t have a physical...
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Introducing Full Raspberry Pi 5 Support in balenaOS
We can’t think of a more appropriate announcement for “Pi Day” than our compatibility with the full Raspberry Pi 5 family of devices in balenaOS and balenaCloud. This extends to all of the various...
View ArticleBalenaOS adds support for Jetpack 6.2 and SUPER modes
JetPack 6.2 comes with an updated compute stack featuring the new CUDA Toolkit 12.6.10, Vulkan 1.3 and TensorRT 10.3.0. It is available on the following balena device types as of balenaOS v6.4.0:...
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Winnow: Using AI and balena to help kitchens pinpoint waste and cut costs
Winnow has some sobering statistics about the food waste problem they help to solve through their technology: ⅓ of food is never eaten It accounts for 10% of global greenhouse gases About 5 – 15% of...
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balena cycle roundup – April 2025
Balena uses the Intentional Work Framework where we pitch our ideas to the team in the form of “bets” and try to select the ones that will be most impactful to execute for the upcoming cycle. Here’s...
View ArticleTracking the Signal in the Metrics – Level up your GitHub Actions with...
Continuous integration and deployment pipelines are the backbone that enables engineering at scale. Our CI/CD pipelines support 100+ device types on balenaCloud with minimal maintenance overhead....
View ArticlebalenaEtcher And Privacy
Background Balena’s primary product is balenaCloud, a device management platform for fleets of small Linux computers. Early on, we found that there was no easy way for our users to flash SD cards that...
View ArticleAligning with the Ecosystem: Migrating away from Balenalib Base Images
Key Takeaways When balena started publishing balenalib base images almost a decade ago, the Docker ecosystem was new, and support for ARM images was practically non-existent. Over the years, the...
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balena cycle roundup – June 2025
As part of our Intentional Work Framework, the balena team pitches “bets” on the most impactful work we can accomplish. Here’s a look at some of the projects that we have shipped: The Cyber Resilience...
View ArticleBalena’s approach to hiring
As mentioned in Balena’s ‘why’, a core part of our mission is to “Enable People”, and we apply that principle inside and outside of the team. Balena seeks to democratise IOT and Edge device technology...
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