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+meta-iot-cloud
+==============
+OpenEmbedded layer to add support for multiple cloud service provider solutions.
+
+## Supported Platforms
+* [IBM Cloud](https://www.ibm.com/cloud/)
+* [Amazon Web Services](https://aws.amazon.com/)
+* [Microsoft Azure](https://azure.microsoft.com/)
+* [Google Cloud Platform](https://cloud.google.com/)
+
+## Dependencies
+This layer depends on packages provided by the following layers:
+* `meta-openembedded` [http://cgit.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded/]
+
+Configuration
+=============
+1. Clone the `meta-iot-cloud` layer to your project directory.
+2. Add the `meta-iot-cloud` layer to `conf/bblayers.conf`
+```bitbake
+	BBLAYERS += "path/to/meta-iot-cloud"
+```
+3. Add dependency layers to `conf/bblayers.conf`
+```bitbake
+	BBLAYERS += "path/to/meta-openembedded/meta-oe"
+	BBLAYERS += "path/to/meta-openembedded/meta-python"
+	BBLAYERS += "path/to/meta-openembedded/meta-networking"
+```
+
+Usage
+=====
+To build packages related to IBM Cloud:
+```shell
+	bitbake packagegroup-cloud-ibm
+```
+	
+To build packages related to Amazon Web Services:
+```shell
+	bitbake packagegroup-cloud-aws
+```
+
+To build packages related to Microsoft Azure:
+```shell
+	bitbake packagegroup-cloud-azure
+```
+
+To build packages related to Google Cloud Platform:
+```shell
+	bitbake packagegroup-cloud-google
+```
+
+Alternatively to add support for a given platform into your image add the following to your distro config or `conf/auto.conf`
+
+```bitbake
+    CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL += "packagegroup-cloud-ibm"
+    CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL += "packagegroup-cloud-aws"
+    CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL += "packagegroup-cloud-azure"
+    CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL += "packagegroup-cloud-google"
+```