Originally published at: Leveraging DevOps for Streamlined Firmware Delivery - Golioth
As embedded developers, we’re consistently seeking ways to make our processes more efficient and our teams more collaborative. The magic ingredient? DevOps.Its origins stem from the need to break down silos between development (Dev) and operations (Ops) teams. DevOps fosters greater collaboration and introduces innovative processes and tools to deliver high-quality software and products more efficiently. In this talk, we will explore how we can bring the benefits of DevOps into the world of IoT. We will focus on using GitHub Actions for continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) while also touching on how physical device operations like shipping & logistics which can be streamlined using a DevOps approach. Understanding the importance of DevOps in IoT is crucial to unlocking efficiencies and streamlining processes across any organization that manages connected devices. This talk, originally given at the 2023 Embedded Online Conference (EOC), serves as one of the many specialized talks freely accessible on the EOC site. GitHub Actions for IoT To illustrate how to put these concepts into practice, we’re going to look at a demo using an ESP32 with a feather board and Grove sensors for air quality monitoring. It’s important to note that while we utilize GitHub Actions in this instance, other CI tools like Jenkins or CircleCI can also be effectively used in similar contexts based on your team’s needs and preferences. For this example we use GitHub Actions to automate the build and deployment process. The two main components of our GitHub Actions workflow are ‘build’ and ‘deploy’ jobs. The ‘build’ job uses the pre-built GitHub Action for ESP-IDF to compile our code, and is triggered when a new tag is pushed or when a pull request…