Building a Yocto Pipeline with KAS, GitHub Actions and AWS
- Anna-Lena Marx
- Embedded , Conferences
- November 29, 2023
Using KAS makes handling Yocto Projects easy. By shipping its own container with all needed dependencies, building sophisticated CI pipelines becomes pretty easy - in theory, or when using Gitlab.
But using GitHub as a code hosting platform with self-managed Action runners on AWS comes with a set of unexpected challenges.
Anna-Lena will talk about her quest through GitHub Actions, the Cloud and how to tame them.
The talk aims to point the audience to the obstacles when building CI pipelines for the Yocto Project with KAS, GitHub Actions, and custom action runners on AWS and strategies to handle them.
Presented at
- Yocto Project Summit 2023.11, virtual, 2023
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