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Today, with the release of Rugix Ctrl 1.1, we are introducing Rugix Apps, a new mechanism for deploying and managing application workloads on embedded Linux devices.

Embedded devices typically run diverse application workloads on top of their base system: containerized services, local HMIs, data pipelines, or inference models. These workloads change more frequently than the OS, and different devices in a fleet often need different combinations of them. Managing their lifecycle, versioning, rollback, crash recovery, and persistent state, has traditionally been left as an exercise for the integrator. Rugix Apps makes it a first-class capability of Rugix Ctrl, building upon Rugix's best-in-class delta update capabilities, security properties, and reliability.

Rugix Apps works standalone: you do not need Rugix Bakery, Rugix's state management, or even Rugix system updates to use it. Any Linux device with Rugix Ctrl installed can deploy and manage application workloads.

In this article, we discuss the challenges of deploying and managing application workloads on embedded Linux devices, show how Rugix Apps addresses those challenges, and walk through a concrete example using Docker Compose.