In last week’s article, we learned how to build a package with FPM, specifically an RPM. Today, we’ll look at creating a Yum repository to host your packages. The repo can be built with puppet, which can also distribute settings so all your managed nodes can use the repo. By adding the package to the repo, it becomes available to install, again via puppet. This is the first step on the road to the automated software packing and delivery that is vital for continuous integration.
A repo has a few components.
- Webserver – Content is served up over http.
- createrepo – A piece of software that manages the repo’s catalog.
- RPMs – What it’s serving up.
We don’t need to know how the pieces work, though. We’ll rely on palli/createrepo to manage the repo itself. We just make sure a webserver is available, the directories are there, and that there’s some content available.
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