Purpose of This Repository

This repository acts as a central automation and orchestration hub for the Armbian project. It coordinates CI workflows, maintains metadata, syncs external data, and generates machine-readable output to power armbian.com, docs.armbian.com, and related services.

It also produces data exchange files used for automation, reporting, and content delivery across the Armbian infrastructure.

Build & Packaging Automation

Workflow	Status	Description
Build Artifacts Assembly		Assembles packages and stores them in the ORAS cache
Linux Kernel Shallow Bundles		Packages minimal (shallow) kernel source trees for fast and efficient CI use, reducing clone depth and speeding up build workflows
Build Armbian Docker Image		Builds and publishes Docker images for the Armbian Build Framework to the GitHub Container Registry
Generate APT Repository		Publishes packages from the ORAS cache and external sources to APT repositories

Testing & Validation

Workflow	Status	Description
Applications Install Testing		Runs unit tests on armbian-config modules to validate install, upgrade, and configuration logic
Wireless Performance Testing		Executes Wi-Fi benchmarks on supported devices to identify performance regressions (Docs →)

Data & Content Generation

Workflow	Status	Description
Generate Board Thumbnails		Generates thumbnails from board-images/ and board-vendor-logos/ and publishes to Armbian cache mirrors
Update Base-Files Metadata		Embeds build metadata into Armbian's base-files packages
Cache Debian & Ubuntu Keyrings		Improves reliability of build process
Weekly Release Summary		Compiles a Markdown digest of merged pull requests across repos or org
Update Download Index		Regenerates image download indexes and torrent files
Update Redirector Config		Compares mirror contents and updates download redirector configs (Redirector →)
Update Partners Data		Generates machine-readable lists of authors, sponsors, and partners
Update Jira Excerpts		Extracts metadata and summaries from public Jira issues
Fetch Kernel Versions		Fetches the latest CURRENT and EDGE kernel package versions and generates badges

Infrastructure & Community

Workflow	Status	Description
Mirror Artifacts to CDN		Syncs release images to Armbian's CDN for global distribution
Invite Recent Contributors		Automatically invites external contributors to join the Armbian GitHub organization
Enforce Triage Role		Automatically grants the All-repository triage role to all organization members
Runners Status		Generates a status table of self-hosted runners with CPU, memory, storage, and runner status

Documentation

Workflow	Status	Description
Generate Documentation		Builds and deploys docs from Markdown sources using MkDocs Material - Published to: docs.armbian.com