binfetch

Binfetch

A minimalist, secure package manager for your intranet.

Problem: You have project exes that need to be securely distributed to company-internal end users and be non-interactively processed. You cannot host publicly.

Solution: Upload your build products to an S3 store, and use binfetch to retrieve the latest executable for your os and architecture.

Example Usage

>binfetch ls      # list all projects


  Available projects:
       project_a
          - master
          - devel
        
       project_b
          - master

>binfetch get project_a      # download the latest archive for your OS for master branch

  Found compatible archive built at 2021-02-09 19:00:09 -0800 PST
  Downloading project_a-linux-amd64-1.0.0-pre.tar.gz ...
  success.

binfetch detects the OS and architecture, and downloads the latest archive.

How it works

An S3 store is to be configured with objects in the following structure:

/$projname/$branch/$epoch__$any_tag_at_all/...

• $projname is a unique name for the project that differentiates it
• $branch is the name of a branch that produced the archive
• $epoch is a unix timestamp indicating the last change to the build.
• $any_tag_at_all is any helpful identifier, such as a git SHA1

The archive filename must specify the os and architecture.

Valid OS strings:

• win32
• linux
• macos

Valid architecture strings:

• x86
• x64
• arm64

Installation and Config

1. go get -u github.com/mlabbe/binfetch/cmd/binfetch

2. aws configure to specify an AWS profile with S3 Read Access.

3. See configs/ in this repo for a sample config.

4. Create an S3 bucket and populate it (see "How it works")