balena cycle roundup – November 2024
As we’ve written about in the past, balena uses an “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 for...
View ArticleDocker Containers for Edge AI: Should You Use Pre-Built or Custom Images on...
In this post we’ll cover the important considerations to make in such a decision, as well as some tips, examples, and best practices if you decide that designing your own images is the way to go....
View Articlebalena cycle roundup – December 2024
As we’ve written about in the past, balena uses an “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 for...
View ArticleTop 5 Docker containers used in large scale edge AI deployments
We help our customers manage nearly one million edge devices belonging to more than dozens of thousands of fleets, all running one or more Docker containers. This provides us with the ability to...
View ArticleAll About Logging on balenaOS
The basics of balenaCloud device logging Devices managed by balenaCloud have a number of options when it comes to logging. The easiest and most straightforward logging for a device is via the Logs...
View ArticleMigrating the entire balenaOS CI/CD to GitHub Actions: From Bottlenecks to...
BalenaOS runs on millions of single-board computers provisioned by our customers. Automated testing of balenaOS ensures that we can continuously deliver new features, and address bugs. The pipeline...
View ArticleContainers Can Do Anything: balena-fying Steam
It’s often repeated in online forums that if an application requires direct access to powerful hardware such as the GPU, audio, or neural processing units (NPUs) that it is not a good candidate for...
View ArticleBalenaOS 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...
View ArticleIntroducing 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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