Berrymill 0.2

Kiwi-based Appliance Builder

Berrymill

It is a wrapper around Kiwi Appliance Builder.

What is this name?

A project KIWI, originally supposed to be named after New Zealand citizen, ended up in the community to be just a sour berry fruit. Hence the name: berry(fruit) mill.

Overview

Berrymill is an appliance generator of root filesystems for embedded devices. It integrates Kiwi image builder to the Ubuntu/Debian distributions, allowing building images locally.

Use Cases

Build an Image Locally

That can also KIWI do. Except if your image build also should equally run on OBS and locally without image description changes.

A Dozen of Small Deviations

You have one image that you do not change that often (or at all), but you have little small deviations: add a package here, remove there, change size, filesystem type etc. You don't want to have carbon copies all around the place, but you want to have derived images.

Configuration Management

Unlike plain KIWI, which keeps configuration in a straight-forward fashion, Berrymill is also handling the Configuration Management in a framework style.

Limitations

Berrymill is in early development and some features might be missing or not working properly. If that happens, please open a bug report by adding an issue here.