Hi,
I am exploring the possibility of using Mender for device updates. Also need to do proxy deployment to a peripheral controller over ethernet. The trigger for the update is from MQTT with artifact residing on an external HTTPS server. I dont need to do deployments to multiple devices and most likely will not use a server other than this external HTTPS server. I had following questions:
- Since there is no need of Mender Client to be constantly polling a server to check for updates, I beleive the combination of Mender Client in standalone mode with HTTPS server using Mender APIs suffice this use case?
- Can proxy deployments be done with Mender Client in standalone mode? Does it still follow the mender-install and mender-commit steps for proxy deployment(via customised update module)?
- Was having second thoughts on why use a Mender Client at all if the application itself can take care of reading the artifact from external HTTPS server but I beleive the power of state scripts (in terms of pre and post processing) and the ability to rollback in case of failures outweighs this thought.
Thanks,
Minal