Balena Tools
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- Updated March 15, 2026
- klutchell/claude-skills
Skills for building and deploying balena fleet projects
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balena-tools is a Claude Code skill in the DevOps & CI/CD category. Skills for building and deploying balena fleet projects
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| repo stars | ★ 2 |
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| Last updated | March 15, 2026 |
| Repository | klutchell/claude-skills ↗ |
What it does
Skills for building and deploying balena fleet projects
README.md
balena-tools
Claude Code skills for building and deploying balena fleet projects.
Skills
balenify
Guide for converting Docker projects to run on balenaCloud. Covers:
- Full balenify checklist for converting existing Docker/docker-compose projects
- Dockerfile.template variable substitution (
%%BALENA_ARCH%%,%%BALENA_MACHINE_NAME%%, etc.) - Dockerfile resolution order and when to use templates vs plain Dockerfiles
- Balena vs Docker/Go architecture naming conventions
- Multi-stage pattern for arch naming mismatches and Renovate pinning
- Volume mount conversion (bind mounts → named volumes)
- Networking differences (host vs bridge, service discovery)
- Environment variable handling (no
.envfiles, dashboard/CLI variables) - Hardware access (privileged mode, device labels, feature labels)
- docker-compose.yml integration with balena-specific labels and update strategies
- Debugging common build failures
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