[posborne]

I have used Yocto for building a new of embedded Linux systems in production. I understand that Yocto is used for the resin hostOS images and Docker is used for the images run as containers.

Is it possible or has any thought been put into making it possible to use Yocto for building the containerized images that are deployed to resin (probably in the form of docker images)? Although this is less convenient than using off-the-shelf docker images and customizing with your own docker files, I believe many of the benefits of Yocto in terms of building a custom embedded linux system might also be recognized within the context of resin.

[alexandros]

Yes! We've actually created extremely small base images with Yocto for our own agent at resin.io, and it's a really cool approach, though it is very complex to set up and handle, and has approximately none of the elegance of a Dockerfile. Also, resinOS images are available as containers for some very specific use cases, so that's another instance where we've done something like that. Perhaps we should write up more about the approach.

[posborne]

Awesome, I would love to see hear more about the approach you guys used for building base images with Yocto. I'm willing to give up a little elegance for control and reproducibility.