Update strategy for the RevPi Connect

Johannes · Post by **Johannes** » 29 Oct 2018, 16:32

Do you have a strategy for updating the RevPi Connect? Imagine if I was to deploy a large number of them around the world and want to keep them up-to-date OS-wise, how would I go about? Preferably I would like to test the new version before pushing it to the devices, and then I would like to be able to deploy it to all devices, if possible at a scheduled time.

Wulf · Post by **Wulf** » 30 Oct 2018, 15:04

Hi,
there are couple of options.

* Being a Debian based system, you could enable automatic upgrade of apt packages from your own debian repository. If you're happy with a new package version, push the update into the repo and they're installed on next cron job run.
* Use a configuration tool like ansible. Either push mode when you've got ssh access, or pull mode to pull from a public repository.
* There are other tools to keep fleets of devices up2date, e.g. hawkbit.

Johannes · Post by **Johannes** » 31 Oct 2018, 08:29

Thanks, I will look into those!