A robust, secure and scalable solution to deploy device software over-the-air
tQCS is a sole solution and service partner for Mender in Asia-pacific region
including China, Korea, Japan and Vietnam.
Mender has a simple server-client architecture allowing central management of deployments to all devices.
Mender Server is intuitive, easy to use, off-the-shelf based on Yocto/Embedded Linux platform. Numerous ready-to-use Enterprise features including robust delta updates, scheduled deployment and phased rollout, automatic retry, dynamic groups, RBAC, TLS, multi-tenancy and more. Truly off-the-shelf product available thru SaaS(Hosted) and On-Premise.
The Mender Server stores and controls the deployment of software updates over-the-air to your devices.
You can use Mender’s web UI or REST APIs to manage your devices, upload and manage software releases to the server and create deployments to roll out software to your devices.
You can also use the APIs to integrate Mender with your environment: for example, to automatically upload build output from your CI system to the Mender server and create test deployments. The Mender management server is now published on GitHub for on-premise installations. It is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.
Mutual TLS communication between server and device enables secure OTA updates.
Binary delta updates are also supported.
The Mender Client support Yocto/Embedded Linux as an out-of-box plugin.
The robust dual-copy-update supports fail-safe and automated rollback with dual A/B partition which ensures that the device does not get bricked. Downtime is minimized and device is operational while update is installed.
The Mender client can be extended to support different types of updates, using a framework called Update Module which enables support for installing different types of software packages such as application, containers, package managers, bootloaders and proxy deployment for attached peripherals.
An Update Module can be tailored to a specific device or environment (e.g. update a proprietary bootloader), or be more general-purpose (e.g. install a set of .deb packages).
Video on Key Features
an introduction to the advanced features available in Mender Enterprise
large scale software update management and deployment with Mender Enterprise
Feature in Snapshot
Mender has four tiers: Open Source, Mender Starter, Mender Professional and Mender Enterprise.
The core features are available on every tier.
| Mender Server | Mender Open Source |
Mender Starter |
Mender Professional |
Mender Enterprise |
| common features on server-side, including Management Server, Management UI, Device grouping, Quick device filtering, Value, Device sorting, Rest APIs, Standalone mode, custom state scripting, module updates, and more: | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| additional features available from Mender Professional and Enterprise, including Advanced device filtering, software version distribution, robust delta updates, scheduled deployment, and automatic retry of deployments. | - | - | ✔ | ✔ |
| advanced features available ONLY from Mender Enterprise, including Automatic assignment of delta updates, offer for both on-premise and SaaS operations, training and SLA based technical support and more: | - | - | - | ✔ |
| Phased rollouts | - | - | - | ✔ |
| Dynamic groups and deployments | - | - | - | ✔ |
| Multi tenancy | - | - | - | ✔ |
| Compatibility | - | - | - | - |
| compatibility on all type of software, including Debian, Ubuntu, Yocto Integration as well as out-of-box Raspberry Pi reference integration | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| common storage types: eMMC, SD card, raw NAND/NOR flash | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Robustness & Security | - | - | - | - |
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common features on robustness and security including Automated rollback, Full image updates, Secure TLS communication, Code signing verification, Integrity checksum to avoid corruption, hardware security for device authentication, and elliptic curve cryptography support for device authentication.
(*Two factor authentication is available only on Mender Professional and Enterprise) |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| advanced robustness and security features are available ONLY from Mender Enterprise, including: | - | - | - | ✔ |
| Role-based access control (RBAC) | - | - | - | ✔ |
| Mutual TLS for device authentication | - | - | - | ✔ |
| Audit logs | - | - | - | ✔ |