Working With Tags

Your Factory initially has a single branch, main. By convention, Targets are tagged with the branches they are built from. This means the Targets have the tag main.

Warning

For this tutorial, it is assumed you have created and worked on a devel branch. This has not yet been covered. See the Factory Source Code reference manual on how to configure the CI with new branches.

This helps keep the development flow fast. For example, you have platform-devel, a platform build based on devel branch, and install it on the device.

Then you develop applications on containers.git from the devel branch. The application is built by the CI with a containers-devel trigger name and produces a Target tagged with devel.

Finally, the device automatically updates to the latest Target tagged with devel.

There are some use cases that you might want to control what tag a device follows, and Targets are tagged:

  • Preventing a device from following a tag such as devel, which is automatically created every time you change the devel branch.
  • Testing a specific Target on a specific device.

This tutorial will guide you through examples to help you understand how tags work.

Note

Estimated Time to Complete this Tutorial: 20 minutes

Learning Objectives

  • Create more devel Targets.
  • Use fioctl to Tag a specific Target.
  • Configure the device to follow a specific tag.

Prerequisites