Toaster is a web application interface to the Yocto Project's build system built on the Django framework with a database backend to store and represent build data. It replaces the Hob user interface, which could be found on releases prior to Yocto 1.8. The welcome page is shown next:
Welcome to Toaster
It allows you to perform the following actions:
- Configure local or remote builds
- Manage layers
- Set configuration variables
- Set build targets
- Start builds either from the command line (analysis mode) or the web UI (managed mode)
- Collect and represent build data
- Browse final images
- List installed packages
- See build variable values
- Explore recipes, packages, and task dependencies
- Examine build warnings, errors, and trace messages
- Provide build performance statistics
- Examine build tasks and use of shared state cache