Warpforge - Decentralized Supply Chain Management for Building Everything

Explore Warpforge, a build sandbox tool designed to enhance the software creation cycle through reproducibility, in this 55-minute conference talk from NDC Conferences. Learn how Warpforge improves upon traditional container systems by allowing free composition of multiple filesystem snapshots, identifying snapshots by hash for enhanced supply chain security, specifying directories for build artifacts, and implementing a decentralized package management system. Discover the tool's language-agnostic approach and API-driven features, including a high-level CLI and simple JSON API. Compare Warpforge to other build management systems like Bazel/Blaze, and understand its emphasis on decentralized environments and collaboration without strict coordination. Gain insights into the project's motivations, long-term vision, and ongoing efforts to create portable, distro-agnostic, and reproducible software packages. Witness demonstrations, explore the API design, and learn how to leverage Warpforge for your own development needs.