Fleet configuration files

Hi,

As far as I know, there are two options for deploying fleet specific configurations:

  1. Device variables (fleet or device wide)
  2. Embed in a release (fleet wide)

So far, we have been using option two for deploying configuration files. We have an application release and based on that release, we add an additional configuration. The downside of this is that this flow can be quite slow. Typically it takes minutes for a release to be deployed.

We are looking for a way to deploy configuration files to our fleet within seconds. Do you have a suggestion for this? Configuration files are approximately 10MB. We would really like to keep all configuration within Balena and not rely on a 3rd party configuration provider.

Related post: Recommended way to handle device specific configuration files

Thanks in advance!