Using resin to deploy bazel built containers

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Hi all,

I was wondering if it was possible to use the power of bazel to deploy fast, correct containers to my array of embedded devices that I have laying around. Turns out, you can, but there are a few limitations currently.

I’ve set up a project that has all the necessary components:

  • simple hello world cpp project
  • dockerhub maintained bazel base images
  • bazel rules for creating hermetic docker images for my software
  • bazel crosstool defined for armv7 (raspberry pi2 cpu) allowing cross compilation
  • resin_deploy script for automating the build/deploy to resin

My blog post goes into more details. Feel free to use/contribute. I plan on adding more crosstool definitions in the future so I can use bazel to cross compile to more resin maintained devices.

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Hi @murtis, this is really cool, thanks for sharing and blogging about your project!

We’d love to send you some resin.io swag as a thank you :slight_smile:

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A couple notes as well:

  • Since you mention multicontainer in the blog post: we’re actually getting ready to release support for multiple containers in the next week or two - you can read more about our progress here.

  • Since you mention that it would be useful to have a tool for rapid local development when building & testing: we do have a feature called local mode, which gets you part of the way there (we’re still working on the GitHub issue you link to in the post).

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Awesome, thanks! I’ll be keeping an eye on your progress, I’m a huge fan of the resin project and pretty sure a bazel build system combined with resin can make deploying software to my embedded devices extremely manageable.

I have desires to be testing resin a lot in the future and this was just the first step along the way. I’ll post my projects as I write about them!