GLA Summit

NI now ships official LabVIEW container images and a licensing model built for automation — but going from "I have a container" to a real CI/CD workflow still takes work. This session presents an open-source reference implementation that does exactly that, and that you can copy into your own repositories.

We'll walk through how it uses NI's containers and the new licensing to run headless LabVIEW on GitHub Actions, and how it parses the .vipc and .dragon files in your repo to build a dependency-matched image stored in your own GitHub Container Registry. On top of that foundation it delivers a rich workflow: whole-project Mass Compile, VI Analyzer reports, visual VIDiffs, a searchable VI Browser, unit tests, and a live dashboard — all on every commit.

The goal is a working example you can learn from and reuse, with a one-click installer to apply it to your own repos in minutes.