README.md

Devuan-builder

Reproducible build system for Devuan using Packer, Virtualbox and public cloud.

Pre-requisites (OSX specific)

• aws cli tools (brew install awscli)
• Oracle Virtualbox
• s3cmd (brew install s3cmd)
• HashiCorp Packer
• brew
• Optional: jq (brew install jq)

Choose the specific branch you want for the Devuan version you need.

Available branches:

• 2_ascii_ec2
  • Auto-build a vanilla Devuan AMI for EC2.
• 2_ascii_alibaba_ecs
  • Auto-build a vanilla Devuan ECS for AliBabaCloud (AliYun)
• 2_ascii_azure
  • Auto-build and register a Devuan Image on Microsoft Azure.

Available Images Below are public images available from this build system:

1. EC2: Devuan 2 (Ascii), AMI ID: ami-0c5de3b8fdb3cf93a in us-east-1a
2. AliBabaCloud: devuan_ascii_2G_alibase_20190508.vhd, contact us with your AliBaba Account ID for sharing.
3. Azure Public Blob, must create image

Goals

1. Immutable Builds
2. Base build to be nearly identical to a vanilla install. This allows for a cleaner migration across clouds, parity with upstream releases, and compatibility with 3rd party applications.
3. Use the primary init system chosen by the Devuan developers: sysvinit

By utilizing Packer, and other tools, we're able to easily build compliant systems with minimal effort, that can then be provisioned using the multitude of provisioners available; from Puppet and Chef, to custom scripts.

TODO

• Add branches with more clouds.
• Add Continuous Integration build checks (Jenkins, CirlcleCI?)