Co-written with Sergio Costas Rodríguez.
As the number of snaps increases, the need for automation grows. Any automation to help us maintain a group of snaps is welcome and necessary for us to be able to scale. The solution detailed in this article has two main benefits:
- Any users of snaps that have adopted this automation will be kept more up to date with the latest released version from the original upstream (the source repo packaged into the snap).
- Any snap developers with repos in GitHub are welcome to use our provided workflow to use a public action that will keep your main branch up to date with the latest upstream tag.
This post details the steps taken to standardise snap building automation, and some ongoing tasks to achieve our automation vision: automate all the things!
What is the new automation?
All of our snap repos live under https://github.com/ubuntu/, so we can use GitHub infrastructure in our automation quest. Using GitHub actions, workflows, and runners, we have…
