Mender: Integration

Mender is an open source over-the-air (OTA) software updater for embedded Linux devices. Mender comprises a client running at the embedded device, as well as a server that manages deployments across many devices.

This repository contains a Docker-based environment allowing to run all Mender backend services as a single system. Each service has a dedicated Dockerhub repository, where tagged Docker builds are stored. Images are pulled and started in a coordinated fashion via docker-compose and the associated docker-compose.yml file.

Requirements:

• docker-engine 1.10
• docker-compose 1.7

Getting started

To start using Mender, we recommend that you begin with the Getting started section in the Mender documentation.

Running the demo server

Start the Mender demo server with the following command:

./demo up

Access the Mender server on https://localhost using the user and password created by the script. Save the credentials for later re-use.

For consequent runs of the script to create a new password, delete first all volumes with:

./demo down -v

Virtual client

The setup comes with a predefined client service (mender-client) that runs a qemu VM in a container. The client will connect to the backend by accessing docker.mender.io host (an alias assigned to the API gateway service). The client container will not run by default. You can manually launch it with:

docker-compose --client up

Contributing

We welcome and ask for your contribution. If you would like to contribute to Mender, please read our guide on how to best get started contributing code or documentation.

License

Mender is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See LICENSE for the full license text.

Security disclosure

We take security very seriously. If you come across any issue regarding security, please disclose the information by sending an email to security@mender.io. Please do not create a new public issue. We thank you in advance for your cooperation.

Connect with us

• Join the Mender Hub discussion forum
• Follow us on Twitter. Please feel free to tweet us questions.
• Fork us on Github
• Create an issue in the bugtracker
• Email us at contact@mender.io
• Connect to the #mender IRC channel on Libera

Authors

Mender was created by the team at Northern.tech AS, with many contributions from the community. Thanks everyone!

Mender is sponsored by Northern.tech AS.