Introducing rpi-image-gen for customized Raspberry Pi images

Raspberry Pi has announced rpi-image-gen, a tool to create custom software images for its devices.

rpi-image-gen is a Bash orientated scripting engine capable of producing software images with different on-disk partition layouts, file systems and profiles using collections of metadata and a defined flow of execution. It provides the means to create a highly customised software image for your Raspberry Pi device. rpi-image-gen is human readable, auditable and easy to use.

The Git repository for rpi-image-gen has a number of examples to help users get started making their own custom images.