Key Concepts
- How to keep the A-Stack Software up-to-date.
A-Stack Software Upgrades
Device Management
Bulk initialization of Things is closely tied to the device management aspect of IoT Platform. The devices layer is the most important component of an IoT solution. A mature IoT platform comes with comprehensive device management features that let customers:
- On-board existing and new devices with rich metadata.
- Identical devices that share the same metadata are grouped together. This feature makes it possible to search devices based on their capabilities.
- The platform also provides per-device authentication and authorization to enforce enhanced security.
- It makes it easy to define which devices can connect, send, and receive messages.
- Devices can be easily blacklisted and whitelisted through declarative policies.
A-Stack platform provide mechanisms to easily address above device management requirementsSoftware Upgrades
A-Stack has a built-in framework to keep the Stack up-to-date with latest releases. It covers following features:
- Two modes to check for software upgrades - Manual or Automatic.
- Patches (Hot-fixes) or major/minor releases are published to Atomiton Cloud by Atomiton Team.
- A-Stack checks for newly available patches / releases and notifies the administrators / users.
- In case of automatic software upgrade policy setting the upgrades are applied by A-Stack.
- A-Stack software upgrades support complete roll-back incase of failures encountered.
What can be upgraded?
- By default - complete A-Stack software is automatically covered.
- A-Stack upgrade framework can be used in some cases to bundle patches of the host OS themselves.