Package Health Score

70 / 100

security
No known security issues
popularity
Limited
maintenance
Healthy
community
Limited

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Security

No known security issues

All security vulnerabilities belong to production dependencies of direct and indirect packages.

Security and license risk for significant versions

Version				Vulnerabilities	License Risk
17.0.0	\|	10/2024		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
16.0.0	\|	09/2024	Popular	0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
15.0.6	\|	07/2024		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
14.0.3	\|	09/2023		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
13.0.0	\|	12/2022		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L

License

Apache-2.0

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Popularity

Limited

Weekly Downloads (425)

GitHub Stars: 35
Forks: 8
Contributors: 30

Direct Usage Popularity

The npm package balena-preload receives a total of 425 downloads a week. As such, we scored balena-preload popularity level to be Limited.

Based on project statistics from the GitHub repository for the npm package balena-preload, we found that it has been starred 35 times.

Downloads are calculated as moving averages for a period of the last 12 months, excluding weekends and known missing data points.

Community

Limited

Readme.md: Yes
Contributing.md: No
Code of Conduct: No
Contributors: 30
Funding: No

With more than 10 contributors for the balena-preload repository, this is possibly a sign for a growing and inviting community.

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Maintenance

Healthy

Commit Frequency

Open Issues: 17
Open PR: 5
Last Release: 18 days ago
Last Commit: 2 months ago

Further analysis of the maintenance status of balena-preload based on released npm versions cadence, the repository activity, and other data points determined that its maintenance is Healthy.

We found that balena-preload demonstrates a positive version release cadence with at least one new version released in the past 3 months.

In the past month we didn't find any pull request activity or change in issues status has been detected for the GitHub repository.

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Package

Node.js Compatibility: >=18

Age: 6 years
Dependencies: 8 Direct
Versions: 258
Install Size: 114 kB
Dist-tags: 97
# of Files: 9
Maintainers: 1
TS Typings: No

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Readme

balena-preload

Script for preloading balena OS images (.img) with a user application container.

Using this will allow images with supervisor version above 1.0.0 to run the user application without connectivity, and without the need to download the container.

Warning

In order to preload images that use the overlay2 Docker storage driver (like nvidia jetson tx2 for example), you need to load the overlay Linux module:

sudo modprobe overlay

For other images you will need to have the aufs module loaded.

Deprecation

The standalone mode described below (balena-preload) is now deprecated. It will be removed in a future release. You should use balena-cli instead.

Install balena-cli and run balena help preload.

Install via npm

$ npm install --global balena-preload

Requirements

Node
Docker tested on 1.12.6 and up but 17.04 or up is recommended especially on macOS, docker-toolbox is not supported. Older versions of balena-preload do support docker-toolbox, see Version Compatibility below.

Issues

If you encounter any problem, you can open an issue

Known Issues

Speed Issues For Flasher Images on macOS

Docker on macOS has some speed issues with volumes. This makes this script slow, especially with Flasher Images.

Version Compatibility

This version will only work for balena OS versions 1.2 and later. For versions earlier than 1.2 you will need to checkout commit 5d6d4607bffc98acdf649ce5328e2079dfb9c3d9 of this repo and then follow the steps below.

BTRFS Support

Since Docker for Mac removed support for the BTRFS storage driver (see docker/for-mac/issues/388), preloading images prior to balena OS 2.0 will require the older Docker toolbox setup with VirtualBox to function properly.

balena-preload dependencies

balena-sdk compare-versions docker-progress dockerode get-port lodash node-cleanup tar-fs

balena-preload development dependencies

@balena/lint @types/dockerode @types/node @types/request-promise @types/tar-fs catch-uncommitted typescript

FAQs

What is balena-preload?

Preload balena OS images with a user application container. Visit Snyk Advisor to see a full health score report for balena-preload, including popularity, security, maintenance & community analysis.

Is balena-preload popular?

The npm package balena-preload receives a total of 425 weekly downloads. As such, balena-preload popularity was classified as limited. Visit the popularity section on Snyk Advisor to see the full health analysis.

Is balena-preload well maintained?

We found that balena-preload demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity. It has a community of 30 open source contributors collaborating on the project. See the full package health analysis to learn more about the package maintenance status.

Is balena-preload safe to use?

The npm package balena-preload was scanned for known vulnerabilities and missing license, and no issues were found. Thus the package was deemed as safe to use. See the full health analysis review.

Last updated on 6 November-2024, at 02:46 (UTC).

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