CloudStack DEB Package builder using Docker

Docker images for building Apache CloudStack DEB packages.

This will give portable, immutable and reproducable mechanism to build packages for releases. A very good candidate to be used by the Jenkins slaves of the project.

Table of Contents

• Supported tags and respective Dockerfile links
• Packges installed in conatiner
• Build DEB packages
  • Pull Docker images
  • Build local repository
    • Clone Apache CloudStack source code
    • Build packages of local repository
  • Build remote repository
    • Build packages of remote repository
• Building tips
  • Maven cache
  • Adjust host owner permission
• Builder help
• License

Supported tags and respective Dockerfile links

• latest, ubuntu1804 (ubuntu1804/Dockerfile)
• ubuntu1604 (ubuntu1604/Dockerfile)
• ubuntu1404 (ubuntu1404/Dockerfile)

Packges installed in conatiner

List of available packages inside the container:

• dpkg-dev
• devscripts
• debhelper
• genisoimage
• lsb-release
• build-essential
• git
• java 1.8
• maven 3.5.2
• tomcat
• python
• locate
• which

Build DEB packages

Building DEB packages with the Docker container is rather easy, a few steps are required:

Pull Docker images

Let's assume we want to build packages for Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial). We pull that image first:

docker pull khos2ow/cloudstack-deb-builder:ubuntu1604

You can replace ubuntu1604 tag by ubuntu1804, ubuntu1404 or latest if you want.

Build local repository

You can clone the CloudStack source code from repository locally on your machine and build packages against that.

Clone Apache CloudStack source code

The first step required is to clone the CloudStack source code somewhere on the filesystem, in /tmp for example:

git clone https://github.com/apache/cloudstack.git /tmp/cloudstack

Now that you have done so we can continue.

Build packages of local repository

Now that we have cloned the CloudStack source code locally, we can build packages by mapping /tmp into /mnt/build in the container. (Note that the container always expects the cloudstack code exists in /mnt/build path.)

docker run \
    -v /tmp:/mnt/build \
    khos2ow/cloudstack-deb-builder:ubuntu1604 [ARGS...]

Or if your local cloudstack folder has other name, you need to map it to /mnt/build/cloudstack.

docker run \
    -v /tmp/cloudstack-custom-name:/mnt/build/cloudstack \
    khos2ow/cloudstack-deb-builder:ubuntu1604 [ARGS...]

After the build has finished the .deb packages are available in /tmp/cloudstack/dist/debbuild/DEBS on the host system.

Build remote repository

Also you can build DEB packages of any remote repository without the need to manually clone it first. You only need to specify git remote and git ref you intend to build from.

Build packages of remote repository

Now let's assume we want to build packages of HEAD of master branch from https://github.com/apache/cloudstack repository, we build packages by mapping /tmp into /mnt/build in the container. The container will clone the repository (defined by --git-remote flag) and check out the REF (defined by --git-ref flag) in /mnt/build/cloudstack inside the container and can be accessed from /tmp/cloudstack from the host machine.

docker run \
    -v /tmp:/mnt/build \
    khos2ow/cloudstack-deb-builder:ubuntu1604 \
        --git-remote https://github.com/apache/cloudstack.git \
        --git-ref master \
        [ARGS...]

Note that any valid git Refspec is acceptable, such as:

• refs/heads/<BRANCH> to build specified Branch
• <BRANCH> short version of build specified Branch
• refs/pull/<NUMBER>/head to build specified GitHub Pull Request
• refs/merge-requests/<NUMBER>/head to build specified GitLab Merge Request
• refs/tags/<NAME> to build specified Tag

After the build has finished the .deb packages are available in /tmp/cloudstack/dist/debbuilds/DEBS on the host system.

Building tips

Check the following tips when using the builder:

Maven cache

You can provide Maven cache folder (~/.m2) as a volume to the container to make it run faster.

docker run \
    -v /tmp:/mnt/build \
    -v ~/.m2:/root/.m2 \
    khos2ow/cloudstack-deb-builder:ubuntu1604 [ARGS...]

Adjust host owner permission

Builder container in some cases (e.g. using --use-timestamp flag) may change the file and directory owner shared from host to container (through volume) and it will create dist directory which holds the final artifacts. You can provide USER_ID (mandatory) and/or USER_GID (optional) from host to adjust the owner from whitin the container.

This is specially useful if you want to use this image in Jenkins job and want to clean up the workspace afterward. By adjusting the owner, you won't need to give your Jenkins' user sudo privilege to clean up.

docker run \
    -v /tmp:/mnt/build \
    -e "USER_ID=$(id -u)" \
    -e "USER_GID=$(id -g)" \
    khos2ow/cloudstack-deb-builder:ubuntu1604 [ARGS...]

Builder help

To see all the available options you can pass to docker run ... command:

docker run \
    -v /tmp:/mnt/build \
    khos2ow/cloudstack-deb-builder:ubuntu1604 --help

License

Licensed under Apache License version 2.0. Please see the LICENSE file included in the root directory of the source tree for extended license details.