YPS 2024.12 - Marta Rybczynska and Samantha Jalabert - A DevOps journey using the Yocto Project

We wanted students to be ready to go for the first hour of a Yocto Project-based course without spending time setting up their distro.

Our all-in-one solution, Virtual Lab, uses GitLab CI/CD and OpenTofu to deploy a horde of virtual machines, Ansible to configure them all, CephFS to share resources such as sstate and packages, Grafana combined with Prometheus for monitoring purposes, and much more.

We wanted students to be ready to go for the first hour of a Yocto Project-based course without spending time setting up their distro.

Our all-in-one solution, Virtual Lab, uses GitLab CI/CD and OpenTofu to deploy a horde of virtual machines, Ansible to configure them all, CephFS to share resources such as sstate and packages, Grafana combined with Prometheus for monitoring purposes, and much more.

In this talk, we would like to share our experience, trials, and errors in building this solution. We will go through what worked as expected when in production, and what didn’t, and will be improved in the future.

To sum up, a DevOps journey using the YP.