May 2026
2026.05
ReferencesNew 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 atavocado buildtime, seeds it into the device'svarpartition, 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.