You like build.snapcraft.io but your git trees are on gitlab ?
You prefer to use https://snapcraft.io/gitea for managing your source trees locally ?
Your company does not allow your source code to leave the house at all but you want automatic builds for new commits ?
You use github but want to build your snaps from some feature branch instead of master ?
There is help !!!
I have been tinkering with the idea of having Ubuntu Core appliance images that provide a local snap build service since quite a while and started hacking on a tool for this around christmas time. While the backend and building on lxd containers was rather easy to implement, I really struggled with the UI side of things. That made me ask my colleague @jamesj to help me out … Covid-19 kind of gave us extra spare time to actually finish this project …
So without further delay here is fabrica your own snap build factory !!
Some history around the development is covered in my blog as well:
If you have read until here, you might be wondering: “but he was talking about appliance images, where does this come into play here ?”
I have initial experimental pi4 armhf appliance images at:
Feel free to tinker with them (and note the limitations and bugs) … over the next days/weeks I’ll add arm64 and amd64 images as well …
fabrica was also featured on the snapcraft.io/blog today:
