{"id":1715,"date":"2017-10-15T16:07:43","date_gmt":"2017-10-15T14:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nico-maas.de\/?p=1715"},"modified":"2017-10-15T16:10:45","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T14:10:45","slug":"running-resin-balena-on-raspberry-pi-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nico-maas.de\/?p=1715","title":{"rendered":"Running resin balena on Raspberry Pi 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/del>Just two days ago, resin.io announced<\/a> balena<\/a>\u00a0their new, moby based container engine. Basically, it is a Docker-dropin-replacement for IoT Devices: It is compatible with Docker and Docker Hub, gains a lot of stabilty with atomic pulls, more conservative flash memory use - as well as smaller updates due to true container delta pulls. Also, it comes bundled as single file, is smaller in size and as easy to use as Docker. So - a very good bundle.<\/p>\n

However, this comes with the disadvantage of losing Plugin support, Swarm, Cloud logging, Overlay networking and\u00a0Non-boltdb backed stores - which is a small price to pay, as none of these features are really needed in an IoT scenario.<\/p>\n

balena is going to replace Docker in resin.io and resinOS in the near future - but I wanted to testdrive it right now, which ended up in me pluggin my Raspberry Pi 3 inflight from Zurich to Copenhagen and getting it \"flying\" ;).<\/p>\n

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To get it working, little is needed :):<\/p>\n

1.) Download and install the latest Raspbian image<\/a> (Stretch Lite should do the trick)<\/p>\n

2.) Login to the RPi and run the installer:\u00a0curl -sfL https:\/\/balena.io\/install.sh | sh<\/code><\/p>\n

(Always check the file before running it to shell, to be sure nothing bad happens!)<\/p>\n

3.)<\/p>\n

sudo balenad &<\/pre>\n
4.) Now you can use balena like docker with the command sudo balena<\/code><\/p>\n
The whole thing works pretty good - this short scrible is just to get it working for using it in a hackish way - a real tutorial will come as soon as I get the time to make it really persistent and auto-starting... But.. Well ;). Living on the edge comes with sacrifices :).<\/p>\n
If you're on Docker Con and want to meet up, just send me a message via Twitter<\/a>, E-Mail<\/a>\u00a0or the Hallway Track<\/a>\u00a0- see you soon ;)!<\/p>\n