Following a slew of hardware announcements in the past few months like the RP2350 shipping, Raspberry Pi 5 16GB, Raspberry Pi Monitor, and Raspberry Pi 500, today they have a new software announcement. Today they formally announced “rpi-image-gen” as a new tool to help customers in crafting customized software OS images.
The rpi-image-gen software is used to create customized software images for Raspberry Pi devices. With rpi-image-gen customized versions of Raspberry Pi OS can be easily crafted with file-system modifications, Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) handling, better management over possible CVE security issues, and more.
The rpi-image-gen tool can be useful for hobbyists wanting to craft their own software image but more so it should be an extremely helpful and valuable tool for those wanting to deploy Raspberry Pi powered devices at scale. With the tool are examples on assembling lightweight “slim” images, creating a Raspberry Pi web kiosk, and other examples.
The rpi-image-gen tool is available from GitHub as open-source software. More information on this new Raspberry Pi software tool via the Raspberry Pi blog.
