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An Introduction to Docker for Embedded Developers – Part 5 Multi-Stage Builds

Director at Feabhas Limited
Co-Founder and Director of Feabhas since 1995.
Niall has been designing and programming embedded systems for over 30 years. He has worked in different sectors, including aerospace, telecomms, government and banking.
His current interest lie in IoT Security and Agile for Embedded Systems.
Niall Cooling

Following on from the previous post, where we spent time reducing the docker image size, in this post I’d like to cover a couple of useful practices to further improve our docker image:

Copying local files rather than pulling from the web
Simplifying builds using a multi-stage build

Copying in Local Files

So far, when installing the GCC-Arm compiler, we have pulled it from the web using wget. This technique can suffer from two issues:

Web links are notoriously fragile
https adds complexity to the packages […]

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Setting up Sublime Text to build your project

Technical Consultant at Feabhas Ltd
Glennan is an embedded systems and software engineer with over 20 years experience, mostly in high-integrity systems for the defence and aerospace industry.

He specialises in C++, UML, software modelling, Systems Engineering and process development.
Glennan Carnie

For many years embedded development was dominated by complex integrated development environments (IDEs) that hide away all the nasty, messy details of a typical embedded software project.

Recently, with the rapidly accelerating adoption of agile techniques in embedded systems, there has been a move away from integrated development environments towards smaller, simpler, individual tools.  Tools like CMake, Rake and SCons are used to manage build configurations.  Container facilities like Docker provide lightweight environments for build and test.  And developers are free […]

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Agile for Embedded Conference announcement

Whilst there are a number of conferences dedicated to Agile and Scrum, content dedicated to looking at Agile from an embedded systems development perspective is much more scarce and a topic in which many of us are interested.

Although we don’t generally use the Blog to promote events, we think our conference is unique and definitely worth a mention.

3 May, Easthampstead Park, Berkshire

The day offers a pragmatic and practical approach to using Agile in the embedded development environment.

What’s on the agenda?

Using a mix of keynote […]

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