OTA Connect Developer Guide

Install the "garage deploy" tool

For our recommended production workflow, we recommend some extra security procedures. Before you can follow these procedures, you need to install our garage-deploy tool first.

We currently provide released versions of garage-deploy for Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic) and Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) which are available on https://github.com/advancedtelematic/aktualizr/releases/tag/2020.10.

Installation instructions

Ubuntu 18.04 or 16.04

To install garage-deploy on an Ubuntu 18.04 machine, download the garage-deploy package and install it with the following command:

wget https://github.com/advancedtelematic/aktualizr/releases/download/2020.10/garage_deploy-ubuntu_18.04.deb
sudo apt install ./garage_deploy-ubuntu_18.04.deb

For Ubuntu 16.04:

wget https://github.com/advancedtelematic/aktualizr/releases/download/2020.10/garage_deploy-ubuntu_16.04.deb
sudo apt install ./garage_deploy-ubuntu_16.04.deb

Other debian-based distros or versions

If you’re using another version of Ubuntu, or another Debian-based distribution that we don’t provide packages for, you can build a .deb yourself. Check out aktualizr, install the required dependencies listed here (exact package names may vary) and build the deb package yourself:

git clone --branch 2020.10 --recursive https://github.com/advancedtelematic/aktualizr
sudo apt install asn1c build-essential clang clang-format-10 clang-tidy-10 cmake curl \
  doxygen graphviz lcov libarchive-dev libboost-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-log-dev \
  libboost-program-options-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libostree-dev libp11-2 libp11-dev \
  libpthread-stubs0-dev libsodium-dev libsqlite3-dev libssl-dev libsystemd-dev
cd aktualizr
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DBUILD_SOTA_TOOLS=ON ..
make package
sudo apt install ./garage_deploy.deb

Binaries for other distros

If you’re using a non-debian-based distro, you will need to build and install the binary directly.

First, install the required dependencies listed here. (These are the Ubuntu package names; the packages may be named differently in your distro’s repositories.) Then, you can build as above, but with garage-deploy as the make target:

git clone --branch 2020.10 --recursive https://github.com/advancedtelematic/aktualizr
cd aktualizr
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DBUILD_SOTA_TOOLS=ON ..
make garage-deploy
sudo apt install ./garage_deploy.deb

The executable will be available in build/src/sota_tools/garage-deploy.

Usage

Once you’ve installed the garage-deploy tool, you’re ready to perform the following tasks: