docker-debian-releases

This repository creates docker images of Debian-based system using debootstrap, for various architectures, and uploads them to docker hub using github actions.

Organization

To avoid having to track the combinations of each distribution and architecture manually, this repository gets the parameters of debootstrap from the current branch name, and then scraps a list of mirrors to figure out which ones to use. That way, to support a new release, we have to simply push a new remote branch on top of HEAD. The following scripts are in charge of this mechanism:

• docker-create-debian-image: shell script that creates a docker image for a specific Debian or Ubuntu release, architecture and debootstrap variant.
• branch-info: python script that translates the name of the branch being pushed to all the information about the image to be built and deployed.
• dockerhub-set-descriptions: updates the short and long description of the image in docker hub after a new version is deployed.

The status page is also created by a github action, from information obtained from scrapping all available mirrors. The following scripts are in charge of this process:

• apt-mirror-info: scraps Debian and Ubuntu repositories and outputs a json with information about all releases it can find.
• json-tmpl-render: renders a template file with information from a json file.
• README.md.tmpl: template for README.md that uses the information obtained by apt-mirror-info and travis-branch-jobs to create a table of images and status' with links to jobs.
• SConstruct: scons script that builds the go sources and README.md.