How to build Fedora packages with Gitlab CI.

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 Gitlab CI?

GitLab CI/CD helps you automatically build, test, deploy, and monitor your code. Run tests before every merge (Continuous Integration) to make sure the code is continuously strong. Set up your git repository to automatically trigger builds when you push commits (Continuous Delivery). Integrate behavior-driven development (BDD) frameworks like Cucumber or jBehave into your workflow to write more comprehensive automated acceptance tests that communicate functionality more effectively than plain unit tests.

Building Fedora package with Gitlab CI via packagecloud

If you’re looking to build Fedora package with Gitlab CI, 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 Gitlab CI.