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Cross Platform ARM w/ Docker and quemu

2015-12-12 devops ubergarm
The goal is to automate building armhf (armv7) compatible Docker images. These images can be used for dev, build, test, and deploy to ensure a consistent user experience. The most common development, cloud, and build machines currently run x86-64 architecture hardware. This complicates working on software targeted at embedded arm platforms. With modern kernels that support binfmt misc and the right combination of qemu-XXX-static binary one can run arbitrary format Docker images on arbitrary host hardware. Continue reading