Company
Date Published
Author
Dan McKinney
Word count
548
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

IoT devices are increasingly being deployed globally, with billions of devices already online, each running firmware or an embedded OS and software written in performant languages like C++ or Rust. Companies building IoT devices need to ship their products fully loaded with working software and receive security patches, which is where Cloudsmith comes in as a distribution toolkit for IoT that helps solve the issues with global rollout at scale. Cloudsmith provides accelerated edge delivery of software, enabling fast and reliable deployment infrastructure, and enables automation of software rollout using entitlement tokens, which can be created to secure standards and attached metadata for additional information. The platform also offers analytics to track device updates and export data to big data or analytics platforms, and supports multi-tenant repositories for package formats, simplifying package management and gaining control.