How to build CentOS packages with TravisCI.

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 TravisCI?

Travis CI is a hosted, distributed Continuous Integration service used to build and test software projects hosted at GitHub. Travis CI is integrated with GitHub pull requests and supports all programming languages that can be built into docker images, making it very handy to setup.

Building CentOS package with TravisCI via packagecloud

If you’re looking to build CentOS package with TravisCI, 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 TravisCI.