Avocado Linux: Highly Secure Accelerated Embedded Development Platform for (A)IoT (asg2024)

Developing embedded products often involves a trade-off between robust security and accelerated development. Production environments, while offering high security and immutability, can inhibit rapid development cycles. Conversely, sandbox environments provide the flexibility and integration needed for fast development but are not suitable for production deployment. The transition between these two environments is typically fraught with challenges, consuming significant time and effort. This talk introduces Avocado Linux, a highly secure, image-based operating system and layer repository with deeply integrated developer tools. Avocado strikes a perfect balance between flexibility and immutability, combining the best of both worlds, accelerating time to market without compromising on security. By leveraging innovative systemd features like System Extensions, Configuration Extensions, and Portable Services, Avocado Linux provides a robust framework for service management, process isolation, and secure, atomic updates. Its design ensures robust security and system integrity, with comprehensive use of dm-verity and mechanisms for recovery and factory reset, safeguarding device data integrity even in the face of unexpected failures. Join us to explore how Avocado can transform your embedded systems development with faster integration, enhanced reliability, and seamless composability. Discover how this distribution delivers significant business value by enabling rapid deployment, maintaining security, and ensuring system integrity. Learn how Avocado abstracts away the complexities of system development, allowing your team and applications to thrive and your embedded product to scale and succeed. About the Talk In this talk we will explore * Demo use cases for building complex products * Developer tools and workflows * Manufacturing optimizations for provisioning and end of line testing * In field debugging and system fault tolerance Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/de/ about this event: https://cfp.all-systems-go.io/all-systems-go-2024/talk/QWTAFC/