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Field notes from the people building it.
Release notes, deep dives and lessons from running robots and edge AI fleets in the field.
2 Oct 2026 · 12 min read
Admiral v00052: Workload Shells From Your Terminal, Secret Files, Alerts, and Devices That Fix Themselves
A command-line tool with workload shell access, encrypted secret files, custom alerts on metrics and logs, Bluetooth setup and repair from the browser, self-repairing updates, NVIDIA GPU support, and a fallback that gets through corporate firewalls.
31 Aug 2026 · 4 min read
Admiral v00050 & v00051: Safer Updates and Downloads That Survive Bad Connections
Updates that check their own work before a reboot, downloads that pick up where they left off, and devices that get to work faster on first boot.
19 Aug 2026 · 3 min read
Admiral v00049: Crash Diagnostics, Disk Encryption, and Cgroup2 Workloads
Introducing TPM/Secure Boot prep, dm-verity, automated crash recovery, cgroup2 workload management, and massive image pull refactors.
15 Jul 2026 · 2 min read
Admiral v00048: Local Time Sanity, Unpairing Flows, and Image Preloading
Introducing monotonic disk-backed time logging, factory reset reworks, Shipwright image preloading, and dynamic KCP controls.
6 Jul 2026 · 2 min read
Admiral v00047: Low-Level Watchdogs, Offline Telemetry Buffers, and Power Metrics
Introducing physical hardware watchdog petting, offline AirDetect buffering, integrated battery metrics, and emergency provisioning recovery.
25 Jun 2026 · 2 min read
Admiral v00044 - v00046: Mesh Fallbacks, Bandwidth Prioritization, and AirDetect
Launching AirDetect spatial analytics, KCP/FEC mesh resiliency, and adaptive bandwidth prioritization.
22 Jun 2026 · 4 min read
Admiral v00043: Hardware Endurance, Storage Optimizations, and High-Fidelity Edge Telemetry
Introducing ZRAM migration, native FS scrubs, rapid DHCP onboarding, and robust physical edge instrumentation.
21 Jun 2026 · 3 min read
Admiral v00041 & v00042: Streamlined ARM64 Pipelines, Native Snapshots, and Hardened Workload Control
Bringing major ARM64 system-level enhancements, and tighter workload environment alignment to edge environments.
20 Jun 2026 · 4 min read
Admiral v00039 & v00040: Hardening Edge Networking, Storage, and Resilience
From intelligent SD-WAN link selection and automatic 6-hour rollbacks to wear reduction and installer diagnostics, this release brings enterprise-grade stability to harsh environments.
2 May 2026 · 6 min read
The Case Against Kubernetes at the Edge
Kubernetes is the most successful infrastructure software of the last decade. It's also the wrong tool for the edge. Here's why lightweight distributions don't fix the architectural mismatch - and what edge fleets actually need instead.
22 Apr 2026 · 4 min read
Build a PS2 Emulator on the Edge with Admiral
We packaged PCSX2 as an Admiral workload; X11, ALSA, gamepad passthrough, remote workload shell access and all. A fun demo that happens to exercise nearly every hard part of the platform.
26 Mar 2026 · 6 min read
Zero Trust for Edge: Rethinking the Perimeter
The perimeter model assumed you could draw a line around your infrastructure. Edge fleets broke that assumption years ago. Here's what a coherent zero-trust model for edge actually looks like.
11 Mar 2026 · 2 min read
Open a Workload Shell on Admiral.
Use admrl exec to open an interactive shell or run a command inside your running workload, without an SSH server, shared keys or inbound ports.
4 Mar 2026 · 8 min read
Preparing Your Edge Fleet for the Post-Quantum Era
Why "harvest now, decrypt later" is a real threat for long-lived signage and edge devices, what an adversary actually does once they're in, and how Admiral's hybrid post-quantum cryptography removes the attack from the table entirely.
18 Feb 2026 · 4 min read
Why We Ship Our OS as an OCI Container
Why Admiral ships the entire root filesystem as a signed OCI image - and how that single decision eliminates drift, simplifies CI, and changes how embedded teams work.