Edge Computing & OTA

Mender

mendersoftware/mender

Popular

Open-source OTA update manager for embedded Linux and MCUs with robust A/B rollback and fleet management.

balena

balena.io

Fleet platform (balenaCloud, balenaOS) for deploying and updating Docker containers on Linux edge devices.

SWUpdate

sbabic/swupdate

Flexible Linux update agent supporting A/B and single-copy schemes, delta updates and hawkBit integration.

K3s

k3s-io/k3s

Popular

Lightweight, certified Kubernetes in a single binary; popular for edge, IoT, homelabs and CI.

RAUC

rauc/rauc

Safe, signed A/B update framework for embedded Linux, tightly integrated with Yocto and Buildroot.

Eclipse hawkBit

eclipse-hawkbit/hawkbit

Backend-agnostic server for rolling out software updates to edge devices and gateways, often paired with SWUpdate.

KubeEdge

kubeedge/kubeedge

CNCF project extending Kubernetes to edge nodes with offline autonomy and device twin management.

EdgeX Foundry

edgexfoundry/edgex-go

LF Edge microservice framework for industrial IoT gateways that normalizes data from diverse device protocols.

AWS IoT Greengrass

aws-greengrass/aws-greengrass-nucleus

AWS edge runtime that deploys components, Lambda functions and ML inference to Linux devices.

Memfault

memfault.com

Rising

Device observability platform for MCU, Android and Linux fleets: crash reports, metrics and OTA.