How to build Fedora packages with Chef.

What are Fedora packages?

Fedora is an open source cloud computing platform that includes everything you need to build powerful public or private clouds, collaborate on code with other developers, test and deploy applications, and manage continuous delivery pipelines. It's also the name of the community using this platform to create products for cloud providers who want to compete by offering robust software-defined infrastructure. You can even deploy your own cloud for free.

What is Chef?

Chef is an open source configuration management tool designed to help you manage infrastructure by using a model-driven, data-driven approach. Power your deployment with innovative global search and scripting capabilities, and make sure tools integrate seamlessly through a well-documented API. Chef is collaborative, ensuring that you can work most efficiently with developers, DevOps teams and operations professionals.

Building Fedora package with Chef via packagecloud

If you’re looking to build Fedora package with Chef, 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 Fedora packages. As well, you can integrate with all kinds of CI/CD tools, not only Chef.