Microtalk
FOTA-First Approach: a CI/CD Example
Stefano Fiorentino
13:09
Preparing a firmware image has never been so easy. Avoiding the struggles to implement a custom software update procedure. Facilitating even more the developer life. Freeing time to concentrate on the actual business logic of the application. All these targets are reachable if you start your next product development from the implementation of the chosen software update strategy. Leveraging all the community-backed implementations of common best-practices will help your team in delivering safer and maintainable products to the market on schedule. I will briefly show you how to have a FOTA-first approach with the Yocto Project, SWUpdate and Jenkins pipelines on a RaspberryPi 3.
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What is the primary reason Stefano recommends a "FOTA-first" approach when starting a new product project?
A
To avoid having any bugs in firmware because OTA updates eliminate the need for testing.
B
To ensure the product is designed from day one to be updatable in the field so the update procedure is tested throughout development and devices can be updated easily.
C
To replace field service engineers entirely so no one ever needs to visit devices again.
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To guarantee that hardware will never need to be changed because software updates can cover all future requirements.
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To minimize development time by postponing software quality checks until after deployment.
Nathan3
Score: 1 | 3 years ago | 2 replies
fiorentinoingSpeaker
Score: 0 | 3 years ago | no reply
@Nathan3 just a brief note: the public repos from sbabic support other boards as well:
https://github.com/sbabic/meta-swupdate-boards/tree/master/recipes-extended/images/update-image
fiorentinoingSpeaker
Score: 0 | 3 years ago | no reply
Me too :( but I hope you have one spare in your lab or among your colleagues to try it out. Let me know if you have a specific topic you want to deep dive into.
TimGuite
Score: 1 | 3 years ago | 1 reply
Thanks for this talk, Stefano :) Will definitely check out your starter repo as this topic often seems too big to find a place to begin learning!
fiorentinoingSpeaker
Score: 1 | 3 years ago | no reply
Thanks @TimGuite, you exactly got the aim of this micro talk right. Hope you'll can follow along the repo yaml configuration files and have a PoC smoothly working within hours.
Thanks for the talk, very interesting. Not sure about the general availability of Raspberry Pi 3 (or 4) these days ;-)