Cross Platform Enablement for the Yocto Project with Containers

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Docker images for Yocto host a repeatable, isolated build environment that runs bitbake, toaster and the extensible SDK/devtool so a full build like core-image-minimal completes inside the container and the output lands in a bind‑mounted workdir. Containers use Linux namespaces and cgroups to prevent leaked processes; images are rebuilt weekly on Docker Hub. Workflows run on Linux, macOS (via the Docker hypervisor plus a Samba-mounted volume) and Windows 10 Pro; demo hardware used two cores and 8 GB RAM and toaster serves on port 18000.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:54THE MULTIPLE DISTRO PROBLEM
3. 2:06BITBAKE SOMETIMES LEAKS PROCESSES
4. 3:30CONTAINERS AREN'T MAGIC
5. 6:04PID NAMESPACE EXAMPLE
6. 8:20SAMPLE DOCKERFILE
7. 9:28DOCKER RUN
8. 15:29POKY CONTAINER DISTROS
9. 33:55DIFFERENCES
10. 42:29QUESTIONS?

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