Introduction to Baserock

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Baserock claims a reproducible system build pipeline that produces a bootable GNU/Linux image entirely from source using about 2,000 lines of Python. It uses declarative YAML definitions plus a trove source mirror for VCS and tarball mirroring, build tools ybd and morph, a simple cache by hashing inputs, sandboxlib for isolation, and produces images with per-component metadata; it supports distributed component-level builds and deployment targets like OpenStack and Docker.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:18Problem: assemble a custom GNU/Linux operating system image from source code.
3. 2:48You can build and deploy a working GNU/Linux system with about 2000 lines of Python
4. 13:11Declarative build Instructions
5. 21:16Creating Baserock definitions for Python projects
6. 23:20Why?

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