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Attune
Attune is a tool for securely publishing and hosting Linux packages.
- Flexible deployment: Deploy a self-hosted package repository, or use our managed cloud infrastructure.
- Secure by design: Attune’s CLI does repository index signing locally, so you can own your signing keys without ever exposing them.
- Really, really fast: Attune does incremental repository index rebuilds, so adding and removing packages is really fast.
We currently support publishing APT (Debian and Ubuntu) repositories, with more coming soon.
Quick Start
Here’s how to set up an APT repository in about 5 minutes.
Requirements
- Docker (
docker) - GnuPG (
gpg)
Setup
############## First, we need to set up the Attune backend. # 1. Clone the repository. git clone git@github.com:attunehq/attune.git && cd attune # 2. Set up environment variables by copying from .env.example. You should # modify these values as needed to suit your deployment, especially # ATTUNE_SECRET. cp .env.example .env # 3. Start the control plane and supporting services. docker compose up -d ############## Now, we'll install the CLI and set up a repository. # 4. Install the Attune CLI by downloading it from GitHub Releases. # 5. Create a repository. attune repo create -u 'http://localhost:9000/debian' -d bookworm # 6. Prepare a `.deb` package to host. One way you can do this is by downloading # a sample package e.g. `https://cdn.teleport.dev/teleport_17.4.4_arm64.deb`. # 7. Add the package to the repository attune repo pkg -r 1 add -c stable/v17 ~/Downloads/teleport_17.4.4_arm64.deb ############## Lastly, we'll use a GPG key to sign and deploy the repository. # 8. If needed, generate a GPG key. gpg --generate-key # 9. Get the key ID of the secret key you'd like to use to sign. gpg --list-secret-keys # 10. Export your signing key (replace $KEYID with your key ID, which is the 40 # character string next to the `sec` entries in each key). gpg --armor --export-secret-keys --output demo-key.asc $KEYID # 11. Sign and deploy the repository. attune repo -r 1 sync -k demo-key.asc ############## Congratulations, you're done!
For more detailed setup instructions and configuration options, refer to the user guide.
License
Attune is Apache 2 licensed.
