Linux apt/deb Repositories

[mataneja]

Feature Description

As a SRE, I want to have access to linux distribution packages that would aid in the installation of Vitess on my self-managed (aka sans-k8s) infrastructure.

Use Case(s)

Linux distributions provide a standardized way to manage the life cycle of software via their respective package managers. We should strive to provide the following packages integrated via Vitess CI at the minimum:

• Ubuntu
• RHEL
• CentOS

We should integrate these artifacts via the standard package manager repositories so that it becomes easier to consume the packages and manage them through their lifecycle.

[mataneja]

@dctrwatson fyi ^^

[sougou]

@dctrwatson is there more work needed for this issue?

[mataneja]

@sougou afaik, there’s only the rpm/deb package for now.

We need to integrate this with a Vitess Repository that is signed so that users can add that repository and be able to receive authenticated/verified rpms/debs directly from us. This integration will allow people to use their existing tooling such as dpkg/apt/dnf with Vitess deb/rpm pkgs respectively.

[morgo]

I have renamed this to apt/deb repositories, since we already produce and publish deb and rpms. We will be slimming binaries, and stop bundling dependencies in 5.0, so lets give it a chance to bake and incorporate feedback before publishing repos.