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May 2026

2026.05

References

New reference projects landed this month, plus a repo-wide config migration.

Shipping containers two ways

Two references demonstrate the two patterns for getting a Docker container onto a device with Avocado:

  • docker-registry — pulls a public image from a registry once at avocado build time, seeds it into the device's var partition, and runs it as a systemd-supervised service. The device needs no registry access at runtime, so it works offline after deploy.
  • docker-save — builds an image locally on the developer's machine, docker saves it to a tarball, ships the tarball into the Avocado image at build time, and loads it into the engine on first boot. Useful when the image isn't published to a registry.

The NVIDIA vision family

The vision references were reorganized into a dedicated NVIDIA family, and two new ones joined it:

  • nvidia-deepstream — a DeepStream pipeline on Jetson Orin Nano / AGX Orin.
  • nvidia-gstreamer-yolo — GStreamer-based YOLO object detection on Jetson (the earlier standalone GStreamer reference, folded into the family).
  • python-yolo — a portable, pure-Python YOLO detector that runs across a wide target set: Raspberry Pi 5, i.MX8MP EVK, i.MX91/i.MX93 boards, and Jetson Orin Nano.

Config migration

Across the whole catalog, the BSP extension references migrated to avocado.target.board, and the READMEs were cleaned up for consistency.