Our Commitment to Security: Balena achieves ISO 27001 Certification
In this blog post, we explore why we decided to do this, what an audited security system actually delivers, why we chose ISO 27001:2022, and what we learned on our journey toward creating a...
View Articlebalena 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...
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Docker 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....
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balena 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...
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Top 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...
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All 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...
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Migrating 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...
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Containers 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...
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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....
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