Openwest 2015 presentation on packaging with FPM by Jordan Sissel.

1. Making your life easier, one
package at a time...
Aaron Gibson
May 7th 2015 - OpenWest
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2. Full?
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3. 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

4. “I'm not the smartest person in the room”
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5. 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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6. 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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7. The world we live in
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8. The world we live in
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9. The world we live in
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10. 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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11. A simple demo
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12. 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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13. Upon FPM, I will build my packages!
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14. Thanks!
@gibsonaaron