How to build OpenSUSE packages with CircleCI.

What are OpenSUSE packages?

The openSUSE project is a worldwide effort that promotes the use of Linux everywhere. openSUSE creates one of the world's best Linux distributions, working together in an open, transparent and friendly manner as part of the worldwide Free and Open Source Software community. Since its inception in 2005, it has grown to become one of the most popular Linux distributions available.

What is CircleCI?

CircleCI is a cloud-based continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform that helps developers build and ship their code faster, more easily, and with confidence. With CircleCI you can automate the testing, building, deploying, and monitoring of applications from a single console with a fully integrated experience. Circleci scales with your business needs. Simple, extensible DevOps software that is an order of magnitude faster than Gitlab-CI or Travis-CI. It offers more options for configuration, has low impacting resource requirements and makes collaborating on pipeline tasks an effortless experience.

Building OpenSUSE package with CircleCI via packagecloud

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