Adding a New System Container to the Edge OS Image

Procedure

  1. System containers are added to the Edge OS image using specific BitBake recipes that download the container’s compressed tarball and copy it to the Edge OS build directory.
  2. To add a new system container you must first upload the container’s compressed tarball to an HTTP repository, such as Artifactory, and create a new recipe that refers to the repository’s URL. The new recipe needs to be included as a dependency within the recipe _packagegroup-containers_.
    packagegroup-containers.bbpappend
    RDEPENDS_${PN}_append = " \
		your-new-system-container \
		"
  3. The new recipe must be saved either in the same layer as the other system containers, or in a new layer that has a higher priority than meta-edge-predix.
  4. The new system container tarball will be located in the /opt/system-containers directory of the Edge OS image. It will be automatically loaded by the sc-loader service when the system starts up.