## Automated Installation Medium Release <p><img data-src="images/archlinux.png" height="128px"></p> <p>Arch Summit 2023</p> <p>David Runge</p>

### Overview * Motivation * Releng * Further

## Motivation 🦾

### Current release process * Artifacts are built, signed and uploaded manually using [archiso-manager](https://github.com/pierres/archiso-manager) * Releases are created manually for https://archlinux.org/download using [archweb](https://github.com/archlinux/archweb/) * iPXE artifacts can only be signed by one person * bus factor == 1

### Archiso 💿 * [archiso](https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/archiso) can build all required artifacts now * the releng profile is used for the monthly installation medium

### Archweb 🕸️ * iPXE payloads and signatures have to be added as static artifacts to the website's sources * creation of releases is manual

## **Re**lease **Eng**ineering 🚧

## Automation * [releng](https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/releng) automatically builds unsigned artifacts on a monthly basis and creates releases for them * iPXE artifacts are signed (currently using a dummy key in CI) * metadata is provided for each release using a JSON payload * the entire process is *documented*

## Promoting releases * [arch-release-promotion](https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/arch-release-promotion) can be used to promote (i.e. *authenticate*) a release on our GitLab

## Creating releasees * [arch-release-promotion](https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/arch-release-promotion) can be used to synchronize *promoted* releases from our GitLab to a local directory structure

## Further 🌟

## Actually releasing 😬 * fix CI!

## Actually signing 🖋️ * the code signing key used for signing iPXE artifacts needs to be added to releng's CI setup * individual releng releases need to be promoted using `arch-release-promotion`

## Actually syncing 🔄 * `arch-release-promotion` needs to be deployed to sync releng releases on repos.archlinux.org

## Actually releasing 🎉 * extend archweb to automatically consume metadata payloads of current releases on repos.archlinux.org

## Help 👋 * testing and fixing `releng` * testing and fixing `arch-release-promotion` * extending archweb

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