I would like to give a try to BalenaOS on my Raspberry Pi 4.
Balena sounds a great and good way to run containerized applications on such devices.
I wonder how to run BalenaOS standalone, without using any cloud, directly from my own laptop.
I understand that I have to use Balena CLI in “local-mode”.
The documentation talk about using a “standalone” image, but the download page only provide production or development ones.
Is there anywhere another image ? Do I have to configure the development image or the Balena CLI ?
Hi, thanks for your response,
But where can I find the URL to download standalone image ?
The documentation you point send me to https://balena.io/os but no way to download it, there is only production or development variants.
About the “unmanaged” variant, we have a piece of old documentation to update: since last year, images downloaded from balena.io/os are unconfigured which is what that doc is calling “unmanaged”, so we don’t have a specific unmanaged variant any more, both prod and dev variant are unmanaged until you configure them (or if you downloaded them from the dashboard: in that case, they are already configured)
We’ll update the docs to make this clearer. Thanks for pointing that out!
I’ve double checked it and indeed, on a freshly flashed raspberrypi3, unconfigured, I’m able to balena ssh balena.local without being logged in to the balenacloud, using latest balena-cli, 11.21.0
I’m not behind my laptop right now to check the version,
But I installed balena CLI yesterday with the latest MacOS package available https://github.com/balena-io/balena-cli/releases
It should be v11.21.0, I will check later.
local configure will only configure things like wifi connections and advanced settings relating to the OS only. Configure in the above context means to join a backend, but that’s not what we want to do. As it happens, I wrote the SSH code, and it certainly shouldn’t be required that you login first. Please do let us know the version of CLI you are using, and you can check you are using the expected one with which balena.
I was using the device name without the .local, thinking it was the name of the host on the LAN.
$ sudo balena local configure ~/Downloads/balena.img
Password:
? Network SSID ***
? Network Key ***
? Do you want to set advanced settings? Yes
? Device Hostname cpmpi-01
? Do you want to enable persistent logging? No
$ ping cpmpi-01
PING cpmpi-01.lan (192.168.1.125): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.1.125: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=3.742 ms
$ balena ssh cpmpi-01
You have to log in to continue
...
$ balena ssh cpmpi-01.local
Last login: Fri Jan 10 17:16:53 2020 from ...
root@cpmpi-01:~#
Don’t know where this .local came from.
I have configured the image with device name cpmpi-01, and the default extension for my LAN is .lan …
