How to build CentOS packages with TeamCity.

What are CentOS packages?

CentOS Linux is a free and open source operating system that is functionally compatible with its upstream source, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). CentOS conforms fully with the upstream vendor's redistribution policy and aims to be 100% binary compatible. It aims to provide enterprise-class capabilities on community-supported infrastructure.

What is TeamCity?

TeamCity is a build server and a suite of developer productivity tools. It is a smart, user-friendly solution for effective software projects management. TeamCity enables developers to track changes in source code, compile projects, execute all kinds of tests, control versions, gather reports and generate artifacts. In addition, the distributed builds technology helps to organize multiple development locations.

Building CentOS package with TeamCity via packagecloud

If you’re looking to build CentOS package with TeamCity, you can use packagecloud to handle all of your package management and integrations with your CI/CD tools. Packagecloud works with all kinds of packages, not only CentOS packages. As well, you can integrate with all kinds of CI/CD tools, not only TeamCity.