Despite the above, these past couple of years have seen an aggressive push from cloud-centric companies trying to tell the Embedded Linux ecosystem and its development community that we should make do with Golang, NodeJS and similar solutions and tools. Most are unaware of the challenges when you cram cloud tools into a resource constrained embedded system. Even though the architecture of some of these frameworks have the right intention (LXD), most just lack the interest in understanding the specific requirements of embedded.

In this talk, we’ll explore how using containers for embedded systems modelling can help facilitate development cycles by enabling modular software architectures. We’ll deep dive into what the real requirements of embedded systems are and how modern container technology can help us meet the actual needs of this world. And lastly, we’ll walk through an example with Pantavisor, an open source container framework implemented for embedded systems.