How to build OpenSUSE packages with GOCD.

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 GOCD?

GoCD is an open-source tool for automating software release management and continuous delivery, which has become the de facto standard in the industry. With its high flexibility & considerable power, GoCD can automate any build, test & deployment process. It includes powerful monitoring & auto-failover capabilities, supporting various scheduling algorithms including periodic, on-demand or one-shot. A web-based GUI makes it easy to configure jobs with drag-and-drop operations. GoCD is lightweight enough to run on any user's laptop, in all environments - IT department, developer machine, CI server.

Building OpenSUSE package with GOCD via packagecloud

If you’re looking to build OpenSUSE package with GOCD, 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 GOCD.