How to build Xubuntu packages with Spinnaker.

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 Spinnaker?

Spinnaker is a multi-cloud continuous delivery platform that provides an interface for defining immutable infrastructure, deployment automation, application updates and visibility into the end-to-end lifecycle of applications. Spinnaker helps developers to deploy to any cloud environment effortlessly by providing pull-based deployment model. Spinnaker automates application deployment via pipelines, which are assembled by the user from task pods. Tasks in a pod are executed sequentially to cause a change in the system, such as deploying an application version.

Building Xubuntu package with Spinnaker via packagecloud

If you’re looking to build Xubuntu package with Spinnaker, 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 Spinnaker.