Summary

I know that was a lot to absorb. And trust me – this is just the beginning. Yocto is a never-ending rabbit hole that you don't climb out of. The recipes and tools are constantly changing and much of the documentation, while there is lots of it, is sadly out of date. Luckily, there is devtool, which automates much of the tedium and mistakes of
copy-paste development away. If you use the tools provided for you and continually save your work to your own layers, Yocto doesn't have to be painful. Before you know it, you'll be rolling your own distro layer and running your own remote package server.

A remote package server is just one way to deploy packages and applications. We will learn about a few others later in Chapter 16, Packaging Python. Despite the title, some of the techniques we'll look at in that chapter (for example, conda and Docker) apply to any programming language. While package managers are great for development, runtime package management...