Making your life easier, one package at a time...

Aaron Gibson May 7th 2015 - OpenWest

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Who is this guy?Currently with GoReact

Fly fisher 17 years wrangling systems

Open source advocate Passionate about config mgmt

DevOps Evangelist Automation freak

Husband Father

“I'm not the smartest person in the room”

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Today's Goals

• Discuss packaging Hel, not Hell. rpmbuild etc (http://marvel.wikia.com/Hel)

• Introduce FPM - https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm

• Explore a simple use case.

• Go forth and BUILD!

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Packaging Hel

• 1st - A social experiment

• Hel - Ruby 2.2.2 on CentOS 5.x

• Hel - Providers stop updating their packages for older OS support.

• Hel - managing packages across OS distros

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The world we live in

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The world we live in

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The world we live in

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Enter FPM

• https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm

• Created by Jordan Sisssel - “Automated his way back to sanity”

• Solved a problem.

• Easy to use, fast, results driven.

• Accomplishes your goal - Make life easier!

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A simple demo

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Inspire

• Package anything that uses make, make install.

• Forget the complexity of .spec, debuild, and rpmbuild.

• Automate the pain away.

• Make things for the world we live in.

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Upon FPM, I will build my packages!

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Thanks!@gibsonaaron