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Resin.io changes name to balena, releases open-source edition

36 points by plumeria 8y ago

xingped 8y ago
I really can't understand this rebranding at all. "Resin" is infinitely catchier and easier to pronounce. I can think of like 3 or 4 ways to pronounce their new name, and it just doesn't make sense. It's a nonsensical nonexistent "word".
- natalyarostova 8y ago
  It's cause of copyright, did you even read it m8?
- outside1234 8y ago
  It means “whale” in Spanish
  - plumeria 8y ago
    I would say it is inspired in the Spanish word for "whale" (ballena).
natalyarostova 8y ago
Sweet! I love using resin (balena) for my raspberry pi projects.
jonnydubowsky 8y ago
I love the new name and appreciate the open sourcing! I'm a big fan of the entire ecosystem of products. Congratulations!
greenleafjacob 8y ago
Resin (now Balena Cloud) is good but relatively bare bones at the moment. Issues we ran into: - PagerDuty integration of device up/down (had to build our own similar to [1]) - Pinning specific devices to not latest version (not possible) - Pinning specific devices to branch (not possible) - Incremental / gradual / staged deployments (supposedly API has support for this but missing from standard tooling) - Semantic versioning of releases (not possible, it only accepts and shows git SHA256) - SSH access is technically possible (we reverse engineered their CLI tool which connects to their SSH reverse proxy) but it would be nicer if the resin ssh command provided a way to run remote commands non-interactively (e.g. to scrape load average, etc.). - No prebuilt instrumentation like load average, memory usage, etc. [1] https://github.com/hobochild/resin-pager https://github.com/hobochild/resin-pager
- lutostag 8y ago
  We use balena for a lot of our edge deployments and it works great. For some of your points it is possible, just have to dig into the API a bit -- the docs can be a bit outdated and hard to find though. For pinning specific devices or incremental (canary) deployments we built a tool using their api that might be helpful for your case [1] although now I suppose a rename is in order :) [1] https://github.com/mobilityhouse/resin-release-tool https://github.com/mobilityhouse/resin-release-tool
- bugsense 8y ago
  Solid points, have you shared with the team?
  - greenleafjacob 8y ago
    Will do, this project has started using resin\b\b balena a lot in the past few months so I will definitely reach out to the Balena team.
- bradstewart 8y ago
  Pinning devices to a release is possible. See this repo[0] for the API calls (also covers staged rollouts). We're using these APIs for production deployments. [0] https://github.com/balena-io-projects/staged-releases https://github.com/balena-io-projects/staged-releases
jonnismash 8y ago
Etcher might be the single greatest flash2disk tool out there. I'm 100% in love with it. Whatever name you guys go with, I'm behind it.

36 points by plumeria 8y ago

I really can't understand this rebranding at all. "Resin" is infinitely catchier and easier to pronounce. I can think of like 3 or 4 ways to pronounce their new name, and it just doesn't make sense. It's a nonsensical nonexistent "word".

natalyarostova 8y ago
It's cause of copyright, did you even read it m8?
outside1234 8y ago
It means “whale” in Spanish
- plumeria 8y ago
  I would say it is inspired in the Spanish word for "whale" (ballena).

natalyarostova 8y ago

Sweet! I love using resin (balena) for my raspberry pi projects.

jonnydubowsky 8y ago

I love the new name and appreciate the open sourcing! I'm a big fan of the entire ecosystem of products. Congratulations!

greenleafjacob 8y ago

Resin (now Balena Cloud) is good but relatively bare bones at the moment. Issues we ran into: - PagerDuty integration of device up/down (had to build our own similar to [1]) - Pinning specific devices to not latest version (not possible) - Pinning specific devices to branch (not possible) - Incremental / gradual / staged deployments (supposedly API has support for this but missing from standard tooling) - Semantic versioning of releases (not possible, it only accepts and shows git SHA256) - SSH access is technically possible (we reverse engineered their CLI tool which connects to their SSH reverse proxy) but it would be nicer if the resin ssh command provided a way to run remote commands non-interactively (e.g. to scrape load average, etc.). - No prebuilt instrumentation like load average, memory usage, etc. [1] https://github.com/hobochild/resin-pager https://github.com/hobochild/resin-pager

lutostag 8y ago
We use balena for a lot of our edge deployments and it works great. For some of your points it is possible, just have to dig into the API a bit -- the docs can be a bit outdated and hard to find though. For pinning specific devices or incremental (canary) deployments we built a tool using their api that might be helpful for your case [1] although now I suppose a rename is in order :) [1] https://github.com/mobilityhouse/resin-release-tool https://github.com/mobilityhouse/resin-release-tool
bugsense 8y ago
Solid points, have you shared with the team?
- greenleafjacob 8y ago
  Will do, this project has started using resin\b\b balena a lot in the past few months so I will definitely reach out to the Balena team.
bradstewart 8y ago
Pinning devices to a release is possible. See this repo[0] for the API calls (also covers staged rollouts). We're using these APIs for production deployments. [0] https://github.com/balena-io-projects/staged-releases https://github.com/balena-io-projects/staged-releases

jonnismash 8y ago

Etcher might be the single greatest flash2disk tool out there. I'm 100% in love with it. Whatever name you guys go with, I'm behind it.