Fabrica is a web service to be run on an lxd appliance. It spawns a web ui that allows you to point to cloneable git trees, initializes lxd containers and builds snap packages of the provided source trees.
To use fabrica you can use the steps below:
snap install lxd
sudo lxd init # hit enter for all questions
snap install fabrica
snap connect fabrica:lxd lxd:lxd
snap connect fabrica:mount-observe
snap connect fabrica:system-observe
snap connect fabrica:ssh-keys
Now fabrica will come up on port 8000. Point your web browser to http://localhost:8000 (or to the external IP instead of localhost) and add some git tree to it.
Note that in its current state fabrica only builds snap packages for the used host architecture (i.e. to build armhf or arm64 snaps, you need to use a raspberry Pi4 and install lxd and fabrica on it)
The branches are checked every 5 minutes for new commits. Builds start automatically when a new commit is detected.
Since the service is currently only available via http and also has no authentication management, it is recommended to only use it in in-house setups.
Issues and bugs should be filed at:
Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.
Snaps are discoverable and installable from the Snap Store, an app store with an audience of millions.
Snap is available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8 and RHEL 7, from the 7.6 release onward.
The packages for RHEL 8 and RHEL 7 are in each distribution’s respective Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository. The instructions for adding this repository diverge slightly between RHEL 8 and RHEL 7, which is why they’re listed separately below.
The EPEL repository can be added to RHEL 8 with the following command:
sudo dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm
sudo dnf upgrade
The EPEL repository can be added to RHEL 7 with the following command:
sudo rpm -ivh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
Adding the optional and extras repositories is also recommended:
sudo subscription-manager repos --enable "rhel-*-optional-rpms" --enable "rhel-*-extras-rpms"
sudo yum update
Snap can now be installed as follows:
sudo yum install snapd
Once installed, the systemd unit that manages the main snap communication socket needs to be enabled:
sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.socket
To enable classic snap support, enter the following to create a symbolic link between /var/lib/snapd/snap and /snap:
sudo ln -s /var/lib/snapd/snap /snap
Either log out and back in again or restart your system to ensure snap’s paths are updated correctly.
To install fabrica - your own snap build factory, simply use the following command:
sudo snap install fabrica
Browse and find snaps from the convenience of your desktop using the snap store snap.
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