# Introducing ALBS: The AlmaLinux Build System

DevFeed: [Introducing ALBS: The AlmaLinux Build System](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/introducing-albs-the-almalinux-build-system-53534.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://almalinux.org/blog/introducing-albs-the-almalinux-build-system/>)

Author: Jack Aboutboul

Published: 2022-07-08T00:00:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [AlmaLinux](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/blog-on-almalinux.md>)

Topics: [Linux](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/linux.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [builds](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/builds.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [Container Image Building](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/container-image-building.md>), [GitHub](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/github.md>)

Tags: [build](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/build.md>), [build-system](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/build-system.md>), [container-image-building](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/container-image-building.md>), [distribution](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/distribution.md>), [linux](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/linux.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [provenance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/provenance.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>)

## AI overview

AlmaLinux announces ALBS, an open-source build system designed to make package and image building transparent and accessible. The system has built AlmaLinux releases across four platforms, publishes errata and signed packages, and provides read-only visibility into builds, failures, and logs. Planned work includes RBAC, SBOM support, namespaces, COPR integration, and automated VM and container image building.

## Source excerpt

ALBS: Announcing Our New AlmaLinux Build System - Achieving Transparency & Future Roadmap We here at the AlmaLinux OS Foundation believe that making it easy for community members to build packages and images is a fundamental part of growing and ensuring a healthy enterprise Linux ecosystem. AlmaLinux is fully open source and supported by a growing list of members helping to improve each version. To that end, we started work long ago to make sure that our build system is also transparent and open for use by any organization that is interested in building a better Linux distribution.