Pantavisor Linux Brings Container Portability and Agility to Embedded Systems on IoT
- Publish Date: August 6, 2021
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- Publish Date: August 6, 2021
The Pantacor team is excited to announce the release of Pantabox and Pantavisor.io. Inspired by other open source projects like Busybox, Pantabox is a self-contained frontend for managing Pantavisor Linux directly on IoT devices. In addition to this, we launched a new home and community for Pantavisor Linux – our open source framework for containerized embedded Linux development at  Pantavisor.io. In this post, we discuss the evolution of Pantavisor Linux and where it’s heading. Then we’ll show you Pantabox as the optimal developer experience for your embedded Linux IoT container projects.
Pantavisor Linux is the easiest way to build an embedded Linux project with lightweight Linux Containers (LXC). It allows you to put your Linux distribution or custom-made firmware userland into a container. This gives your entire system the benefits of portable containerized lifecycle management without needing to replace your distribution.
With Pantavisor Linux teams get an effective and portable way to model and deliver system upgrades as atomically transactional units. This is easily accomplished since the package exchange format matches the Pantavisor state format. The Pantavisor System Engine also by default comes packaged as <a href=" />a tiny no-OS that creates a modularized system experience out of BSPs and containers.
Everything on the device is containerized with Pantavisor Linux and its management toolbox, Pantabox is no exception and it also runs in a container on top of Pantavisor Linux. With Pantabox you have the full set of pvr cli commands available for managing device atomic revisions as well as other operations for your embedded Linux projects.
Get started with this tutorial or take a deeper dive into managing Pantavisor Linux with Pantabox.
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