If you’re a NetEye regular, you may have downloaded the NetEye ISO at least once in your life. And if you did, you probably discovered that you had a bit of free time before the download was completed and the ISO was ready to be used. Why’s that? Because until a couple of weeks ago,…
Read MoreIn a previous blogpost, we showed how to test an ISO using Packer, an open source software tool for creating machine images for multiple platforms. One of the issues we faced was due to a security requirement we have: that the ISO we ship must have its password already expired so that when NetEye is…
Read MoreWhen installing our favorite Linux distribution, the first thing we do is download the official installation image, an ISO file, from the distribution website or a third party site. Imagine for example that CentOS has just released a new version, and we are eager to give this new version a try by performing a fresh…
Read MoreAs mentioned in the previous post of this series, at Würth Phoenix we build our NetEye ISOs from scratch every night to be sure that every morning everything will be fresh.To perform this activity with no manual intervention in a robust, repeatable, and reliable way, the R&D team uses Jenkins, a well known open source…
Read MoreHere at Würth Phoenix, we ship software in many different ways, but one of the main methods to support on-premise installations is with an ISO file. With the ISO we allow our customers to install NetEye, the underlying OS, and all dependencies in a flexible yet simple way. Since this is so important, how can…
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