Feat: Consider releasing convenient binaries for all supported platforms

[aalmiray]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

It's not user friendly asking consumers to build their own binaries (although some prefer to always build from source).

Describe the solution you'd like

Consider configuring GoReleaser https://goreleaser.com/ for building and releases binaries for all supported platforms

Describe alternatives you've considered

No response

Additional context

No response

[mikemccracken]

Hi @aalmiray - thanks for writing.
We do ship a statically linked binary for linux, which is the only currently supported platform.
See the https://stackerbuild.io/get_started/get_stacker/ page for info on downloading and checking system requirements.

Is there a specific other platform you are interested in, or was the download link not prominent enough on the main page?

Thanks,
mike

[aalmiray]

Yes, I saw the binary as a release asset but given that there's no explicit indication of the target platform (i.e, linux-x86_64).

Also, being a Go based project it could potentially run on any platform unless the codebase explicitly requires Linux support, wouldn't you agree?

[mikemccracken]

Yes, good point that we don't make a note of the arch - that said,
Stacker does require linux - it statically links liblxc and depends on overlayfs, which is a linux filesystem.
It's possible to imagine a stacker that worked on other platforms, but it would be a major change and is not in the scope of the project.