Robotics is a rapidly growing field, with applications in logistics, industrial, agricultural and medical been adopted at a record pace. As growth accelerates, the need for safety critical, secure and reliable software has become an imperative in most production applications. Cloud connectivity, and the ability to perform over the air software updates to an existing fleet of robots has become essential to robot developers and software engineers. This presentation will describe some of the common challenges robot developers encounter in deploying software in production environments and how researchers can benefit from leveraging the same general-purpose tools and solutions to tackle and contribute to the advancement those challenges.