Yocto Project is the basis that currently most major players in the embedded Linux world are moving towards. It is an open-source collaboration project, to provide you with the tools, templates, and methods necessary to create custom embedded images and distributions. It includes the Poky reference distribution, which is used to test and show how the tools and methods works. 

The course combines theory with lots of practical exercises, all for preparing the student to start using Yocto in their daily development in an efficient and successful manner.

The theory parts includes:
• Build system philosophy – What makes a great build system?
• What you need to know about bitbake, OpenEmbedded, Yocto, Poky
• Open source licenses
• Recipes — types, creating, patching etc.
• Layers – Best practice, contents, availability
• Classes
• BSP’s
• Machine configuration
• Images vs distributions
• Packaging and upgrading
• SDK’s and workflows

The exercise part includes:
• Configuring the build system and using bitbake
• Adding packages to an image
• Patching existing recipes
• Patching the kernel
• Importing third-party software
• Building custom images
• Autostarting services
• OTA upgrade
• SDK generation and using the SDK