chameleoncloud / chi-edge-raspberrypi

Balena fleet configuration for Raspberry Pi support on CHI@Edge

chi-edge-raspberrypi

Wireguard kernel module build

The Wireguard kernel module is available on most newer kernels. However, some Balena device types are sufficiently old as to not include it. The install-wireguard.sh will lazily attempt to compile the kernel module on build.

Because builds will usually NOT happen on the target device, we will not be able to reliably detect support for Wireguard in the kernel. Therefore, each type of device that needs a custom build should be added to the case statement to point to the latest available kernel header file. N.B.: the version is always the Balena kernel version with a ".dev" suffix, from what I can tell.

Balena guide

K3s agent state is stored in a Docker volume on the Balena host; this is helpful not only because it means the state is not stored wastefully in an overlay filesystem, but also means it persists across deployments. This also means that additional state may need to be cleaned up if, e.g., the control plane radically changes and a fresh node enrollment is appropriate. "Purge device" will clean up Docker volumes on the Balena host to help with this.