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ota-reference-design

A practical reference design for reliable and secure over-the-air updates on embedded Linux.

This repository is intended as an educational reference design. It demonstrates one possible approach to designing and implementing a reliable OTA update system for embedded Linux.

The project focuses on the engineering decisions behind OTA systems, including:

  • update strategies;
  • system and storage architecture;
  • bootloader interaction;
  • atomic updates;
  • rollback and recovery;
  • integrity verification and signing;
  • testing and failure handling.

It is not tied to a specific OTA framework, hardware platform, or cloud provider.

Raspberry Pi may be used for practical demonstrations, but the underlying concepts are applicable to a broader range of embedded Linux devices.

This repository is not intended to be a production-ready framework. Instead, it is designed to explain the architectural principles, trade-offs, and failure scenarios that should be considered when building a real OTA system.

The repository is being developed incrementally as a structured series of articles, diagrams, architecture decisions, and practical examples.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for details.