TL;DR: Build SNIS with a container.
Space Nerds in Space is an awesome starship bridge simulator developed by smcameron. Provided you manage to build and install it, you and some friends can embark on some intriguing space adventures. This project provides you with a container for building SNIS. It is part of a bigger venture to create bootable USB flash drives with SNIS installed on. Who doesn't want to have SNIS in their pocket at all times?
git clone https://github.com/fgerling/snis-builder.git
cd snis-builder
podman build -t $USER/snisbuilder .
podman run -ti --rm --userns=keep-id -v $PWD/data:/app $USER/snisbuilder:latest
The final goal is to get a bootable USB image with a minimalistic OS and SNIS on it. Boot it and take off to space. It's still space nerds in space. So the creation of that USB image should be automated and be done for every commit. Ideally, we test it along the way and are independent of specific Linux distributions. The fasted way into space is through the sky, so a cloud-based CI system was an obvious choice.
snis-builder can be used within a CI system or as a "standalone" container.
The container itself is based on Ubuntu with the build dependencies for SNIS installed. Upon running the container, it will clone the SNIS repository if not already present and start building SNIS.
Check the Dockerfile to see what dependencies are installed and check entrypoint.sh to learn how the container is building SNIS.