How to build Xubuntu packages with Shippable.

What are Xubuntu packages?

Xubuntu is a community developed distribution for desktops and laptops based on the lightweight Xfce desktop environment. Xubuntu is an elegant and easy to use operating system. At its core, it's solid and minimalist. In addition, Xubuntu is fully customizable with hundreds of themes to choose from, along with different modifications for the Openbox window manager.

What is Shippable?

Shippable is the first CI/CD platform purpose-built for containerized microservices. Shippable declaratively defines the infrastructure your team needs to build, test, and ship containerized applications hosted on public cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, IBM Cloud, etc. Shippable automates the deployment pipeline that delivers your software into production. The deployment pipeline specifies the checks that are executed against each change you submit. You can also schedule these checks using cron expressions. This helps you eliminate problems early in the pipeline before they affect developers or users, helping you iterate faster and ship more often.

Building Xubuntu package with Shippable via packagecloud

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