Containerisation is a new player in the embedded world. Provisionning and rapid deployment doesn’t really make sense for embedded devices, but the extra security that container partitionning brings to the table is quickly becoming a “must have” for every embedded device.
However, the embedded world has its own constraints. Generic distributions like debian or Fedora are rarely used and tools like dockers can’t build software with custom build-chains the way Yocto or buildroot does it.
This talk will quickly review what are linux containers, why they are usefull in the embedde world, and then will study ways to generate container images using the yocto infrastructure and integrate them in another yocto image without breaking the package-based update system that Yocto provides.
Jérémy Rosen – Smile-Embedded and connected systems