Getting started

Buildkite Packages provides a repository for your packages which, in addition to holding a collection of packages, also contains metadata describing a variety of attributes for these packages such as, package versions, supported operating system versions and processor architecture, dependencies, and so on. A Buildkite Packages repository may:

• Contain packages of any supported type. For example, Debian, RPM, RubyGem, and Python packages can all coexist in the same Buildkite Packages repository
• Have packages for multiple Linux distributions, for example, if you have a Debian package that works for two versions of Ubuntu and one version of Debian you only need one Packages repository
• Issue read tokens to identify specific nodes and control access to a repository by specific node.