We package and deliver like UPS trucks.

Every package system in existence is too hard to use and too painful to deal with. We want to fix that. If you just want to ship a filesystem wrapped in a cryptographically verifiable archive you are in the right place. Orbital is a reboot of ZPS a project that was never fully realized.

• The usability of recent solutions is constrained by complexity
• Most other systems have co-mingled the transport functionality with the build system
• Everything else is mired in technical debt easily eliminated with modern advancements

• Crypto

  • Signed archives
  • Signed metadata
  • Public key fetching from DNS

• Embeddable

  • Use it with no Pkl dependency to create a software updater for your Go app

• Opkg

  • Fast random access signed archive format
  • Zstd compression
  • Variable build system friendly DSL (Opkgfile)
  • Version time component because why increment a semver for CI builds

• Repositories

  • Publish to S3
  • Fetch from HTTPS/S3

bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://hub.platform.engineering/get/setup.sh)" -- install orbital

• Ensure that /opt/pel/bin is in your shell $PATH
• Add the following to /opt/pel/.ops/tree.pkl to work with other repositories FOR EXAMPLE:

amends "orbital:/tree.pkl"

repositories = new Listing<Repository> {
  // Platform Engineering Labs tools repository  
  new {
    uri = "https://hub.platform.engineering/repos/platform.engineering/pel#stable"
  }

  // Formae hub community repository  
  new {
    uri = "https://hub.platform.engineering/repos/platform.engineering/community#stable"
  }
}

Try it!

• run ops refresh
• run ops list
• run ops install formae

Apache 2.0