theterg / nrf_vm_base

A Vagrant + Ansible configuration for building Nordic nRF SDK projects in the cloud or a VM

nrfdev

This is a proof of concept build automation for compiling nordic nRF code from a VM or the cloud. When combined with a CI server, this makes it possible to automatically compile firmware and generate hex files and/or DFU images! It can also be used to compile nRF firmware code from a consistent VM environment across platforms.

Using this to provision a Linux machine

Here are some bash commands that will set up the toolchain and environment. These should be run within the same environment that will be building the firmware images:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y build-essential libssl-dev libffi-dev python-dev
pip install --upgrade -r requirements.txt
ansible-playbook -i "localhost," -c local infra/tests.yml

See circle.yml for a sample script where CircleCI can be used to automatically build NRF code.

Running this from within a VM (using Vagrant)

This is useful for testing the ansible scripts to ensure that the environment is set up correctly. These should be run from a host PC that will virtualize the dev environment

Step 1) Installation:

• Install virtualbox from virtualbox.org
• Install vagrant from Vagrantup
• Install ansible
  • On ubuntu - apt-get install ansible is sufficient
  • On OSX, homebrew is probably easiest: brew ansible
    • If you don't have homebrew, git it at brew.sh
• If you'd like to USB Debug from within the VM, make sure you install the VirtualBox Extension Pack for your platform

Step 2) vagrant plugin install virtualbox

Step 2) echo "33.33.33.55 nrfdev" | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts

Step 3) Consider adding this to your ssh config:

host nrfdev
	User deploy
	HostName nrfdev
	ForwardAgent yes

Step 4) cd into the infra/ folder and execute vagrant up --provider=virtualbox

Step 5) execute ssh nrfdev to ssh into the environment