Dynamic Configuration File

In a production environment, you may have a fleet of devices. Configuring each device would be frustrating. The FoundriesFactory™ Platform adds management capabilities to your product configuration. With Fioctl®, the configuration file is encrypted with the devices’ public key.

When the device receives the encrypted file, fioconfig stores it to a persistent volume at /var/sota/config.encrypted. At boot, fioconfig extracts all your configuration files to /var/run/secrets/<filename>. This is a temporary file system only available while the device is running. This means only the fioctl user—you—and the device will know the configuration content; Foundries.io™ will not.

Hint

While the following configures a single device, it can also be used to affect a group of devices if associated with devices-groups. This topic will be discussed further in later tutorials.

Use Fioctl on your host machine to remember your device name:

fioctl devices list

NAME             FACTORY   TARGET                 STATUS   APPS        UP-TO-DATE
----             -------   ------                 ------   ----        ----------
<device-name>  <factory>  raspberrypi3-64-lmp-8  ONLINE   shellhttpd  true

Now use Fioctl to set a configuration file:

fioctl devices config set <device-name> shellhttpd.conf="MSG=\"Hello from fioctl\""

On your device, check the folder /var/run/secrets. It may take a few minutes to receive the configuration file. If you changed the fioconfig interval as suggested in Deploying Your First Application, it could take up to a minute.

sudo ls /var/run/secrets/

shellhttpd.conf  wireguard-client

Read the file content:

sudo cat /var/run/secrets/shellhttpd.conf

MSG="Hello from fioctl"