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It is now possible to configure your tenant on Hosted Mender to leverage a SAML-compatible Identity Provider (IdP) to identify and authenticate users. Thanks to this feature, users can log in to Mender using their existing credentials (e.g., Azure/Microsoft, AWS, or any other SAML-compatible service.

Setting up Mender as a SAML Service Provider (SP) requires uploading the SAML metadata from yo...

Google Cloud IoT Core is to be retired, a timely reminder to emphasize the importance of a vendor-agnostic approach to your device lifecycle management.

Last week, came the news that Google plans to retire Google Cloud IoT Core on August 16th, 2023. This gives current enterprise users of Google Cloud IoT Core services less than 12 months to prepare and execute a migration plan.

On October 10, 2022, we’re updating our terms of service for Hosted Mender. You can review the updated terms here. This update covers the inclusion of a separate Yocto Layer license to comply with the license requirements in the Yocto Project. Please make sure you read the updates to the terms. By continuing to use Hosted Mender after this date, you are agreeing to the updated terms. Thank y...

Wind River is one of the biggest enterprise grade Yocto-based Linux providers. In late 2019 they released their LTS19 version based on Yocto Zeus (3.0).

As Mender is also compatible with selected Yocto releases including Zeus, the integration with Wind River Linux just requires some small tweaks to make it work seamlessly. In this tutorial we will describe basic steps required to make both wor...

Two Factor Authentication (2FA) is an extra layer of protection for user authentication with OTP-compatible applications like Authly and Google Authenticator.

This feature is now available to all the Hosted Mender users independently from their subscription plan.

You can enable Two Factor Authentication on your profile’s page, selecting the “Enable Two Factor authentication” option and followi...