Over the past three years, the growing zoo of Open Source update frameworks made updating an embedded Linux system much easier. But, the availability of a robust update tool solves only one step in the complex chain from a software artifact to an updated and working system on your devices.

Starting with a modern system consisting of a recent bootloader, kernel, init system and update tool, this talk ventures beyond the basic and already solved topics of A/B redundancy, atomicity, or simple update verification.

Enrico will present strategies for creating a robust update chain from automated testing up to full rollout management and show how to solve these challenges with recent Open Source software such as barebox, RAUC, systemd, hawkBit, casync and labgrid. You will learn how to deal with more modular and complex system setups, restricted systems, error recovery, product variants, resigning for deployment, updating the bootloader itself and interaction with verified boot.