ApacheCon 2016

In a world where the Internet of Things is becoming ubiquitous, provisioning software becomes more and more important. Challenges you need to deal with are not only the diversity and multitude of platforms that need to be provisioned but also the actual runtime environment and the sheer number of devices you need to manage. For example, how would you manage your software stack if the server parts run on Docker, your sensor network is running Python and clients run Android?

In this talk, we show how you can leverage Apache ACE to manage such a diverse set of devices and/or platforms. We introduce Apache ACE and go into detail on how it works under the hood and how you can use it to provision any kind of software artifact or configuration. A demonstration is given on how this would work in a concrete situation. For this talk, knowledge of Apache ACE is not a prerequisite.