Lots of cool things are developing with IoT best practices, but the fact that so many embedded devices require native code binaries complicates many things that are taken for granted in modern DevOps. While, yes, Jenkins has been doing CI for C/C++ for years, it doesn’t have the flexibility and power that may be available in other languages.
However, modern tooling is emerging for C/C++, such as proper dependency managers like the FOSS Conan project for native code (primarily C/C++) binaries. With this development and Jenkins pipelines we can reimagine DevOps in an IoT/Native world.
In this talk we will demonstrate breaking up a C++ application into several binary dependencies as is a best practice in other modern languages, both from OSS and internal and a set of Jenkins pipelines to maintain them and build out the application from individual independent binaries to a final application ready to be distributed to consumer end points delivered as docker containers or natively.
