Originally published at: Exploring Golioth on Linux with Qualcomm - Golioth
Recently, we teamed up with Qualcomm to showcase Golioth’s AI features. This demo stands out because we used the Qualcomm RB3 Gen 2 Development Kit running Linux. Staying true to our demo culture, we wanted to share how we pulled it off, what we learned about using Golioth with Linux, and where we might take this in the future. Let’s dive in! Wait, Golioth supports Linux??? 
If you’ve been following us for a while, you probably know about our support for microcontrollers—from Zephyr tips to our cross-platform Firmware SDK. But you won’t find much mention of connecting Linux devices in our docs or blogs because we don’t officially support managing Linux-based devices. I say officially because we’ve actually had a Linux port for quite a while. It started as part of our CI testing infrastructure, helping us speed up tests on the Firmware SDK so that we can test more frequently than what you can do with physical devices. Over the years we’ve received many requests to support Linux-based applications with a few different configurations. Sometimes a company was developing a product that had both an MCU and Linux Gateway (like a Thread Border Router) and wanted to manage the entire fleet with Golioth. Other customers were building a complex system that had both a MPU and MCU in the same device. And of course, many more are building a Linux edge-type device. Since the scope of the Linux port was initially narrow, it was never designed to be a full “SDK”. Whenever a customer would ask if they could use the port for their embedded Linux device, we usually steered them away and pointed them to folks like…