> However, as far as I can tell, you only support application updates, not OS-level updates.
For now this is true. People using Deviceplane today upgrade their underlying OS via the mechanism provided by their distro. On Debian-based systems this means running something like `apt-get dist-upgrade`. Deviceplane provides the tools to rollout this upgrade across your devices, but we're not hands-on past that.
We do have plans to support OS-level updates, but for now we're specializing in just updating applications and letting the underlying distro handle updating itself.
> Another concern is pricing. $5/device/mo is probably fine for enterprise, but that can be 100% of revenue for many consumer devices. Since you’re open source, we could always self-host, but I’m curious if you have any plans to for more B2C-friendly pricing.
Our pricing isn't actually $5/device/mo! This would be quite expensive. Our team plans starts at $250 per month, but pricing doesn't scale linearly past that. We're still exploring different pricing schemes for Deviceplane, but we do know that having the same per-device rate for B2B and B2C will likely not work.
Thanks Josh and Cyrus! The bulk scripting looks super handy and definitely addresses half my concern with OS updates. The other half is being able to roll-back if something goes wrong during the update.
> However, as far as I can tell, you only support application updates, not OS-level updates.
For now this is true. People using Deviceplane today upgrade their underlying OS via the mechanism provided by their distro. On Debian-based systems this means running something like `apt-get dist-upgrade`. Deviceplane provides the tools to rollout this upgrade across your devices, but we're not hands-on past that.
We do have plans to support OS-level updates, but for now we're specializing in just updating applications and letting the underlying distro handle updating itself.
> Another concern is pricing. $5/device/mo is probably fine for enterprise, but that can be 100% of revenue for many consumer devices. Since you’re open source, we could always self-host, but I’m curious if you have any plans to for more B2C-friendly pricing.
Our pricing isn't actually $5/device/mo! This would be quite expensive. Our team plans starts at $250 per month, but pricing doesn't scale linearly past that. We're still exploring different pricing schemes for Deviceplane, but we do know that having the same per-device rate for B2B and B2C will likely not work.