Docker-based Development Environment Demo

[astroesteban]

Hey y'all! 👋

I wanted to share with the community a small thing I've been working on. The name of the project is cfs-pi and the goal of it is to provide an all-in-one development environment for cFS and be able to cross-compile for the Raspberry Pi. This is achieved by taking advantage of Docker and Visual Studio Code's DevContainer feature.

I wanted to keep it as minimal as possible so I only use the Caelum RC4 versions of cFE, PSP, and OSAL without any apps to provide a minimal proof of concept. Anyone that takes this project can add their own apps on top or customize it how they see fit. Or hopefully this can serve as a good reference for others in the community.

The only truly custom things were the Docker-related files and the Raspberry Pi Toolchain.

I managed to compile cFS for the native Ubuntu Docker image as well as cross-compile it for the Raspberry Pi 3B+ I have. On top of that I could "flash" the Pi by scp'ing the files over from inside of the container. The only limitation I found was that I couldn't ping raspberrypi.local from inside of the container. I had to do that on the host. Another limitation is that I can't use GUI applications from inside of the container.

Anyways check it out: https://github.com/astroesteban/cfs-pi

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