[AnHonestComment]

I used Docker for embedded.

Running a cluster across your IOT fleet (1k+ devices; 5-10 apps each) gives a nice interface for pushing out tasks, choosing applications for a device, configuring supervisor-device relationships, etc. It turns out from scratch Docker containers on ARM are very portable.

I think you’re being dramatic — embedded is notorious for crazy builds of weird config flags to even get “hello world” to compile, and you’re waving your arms pretending that concepts from Erlang abstracted away from the language are too much.

Docker is just cgroups and namespaces, with a zip file of code. More or less literally.

Orchestration is the same mess it’s always been — back to at least the telephone days, when Erlang used the same concepts.

[shandor]

That sounds fascinating. Would be very interesting to read more about your IoT fleet, tasks, and deployment with that stack.