## A user story: From packaging Pulp to using Pulp
by Markus (goarsna), Maximilian (maximilian), and Quirin (quba42)
### Abstract
You may know us as [pulp_deb](https://github.com/pulp/pulp_deb) maintainers, or as Foreman/Katello contributers, but today we want to tell you about our experiences as **Pulp users**.
We all work for [ATIX](https://atix.de/), specifically on the [orcharhino](https://orcharhino.com/) downstream enterprise product based on the [Foreman/Katello](https://theforeman.org/) open source project. Katello contains [Pulp](https://pulpproject.org/) and so we are at PulpCon!
Working on a downstream enterprise product implies packaging our own version of the upstream, so we do package our own version of various Pulp RPM packages.
This talk introduces our new GitLab CI RPM packaging pipeline that uses Pulp to package and store Pulp packages. That's a lot of Pulp! ;-) Using Pulp as our artifact store has greatly improved our build pipeline efficiency and run times. Join us to find out how!
### Link collection
* [ATIX marketing Tweet](https://twitter.com/ATIXAG/status/1589641308549054465)
* Upstream [pulpcore-packaging repo](https://github.com/theforeman/pulpcore-packaging).
* Upstream [pulpcore 3.16 RPM repo](https://yum.theforeman.org/pulpcore/3.16/).
* [pulp_deb 2.16.2 tag](https://github.com/pulp/pulp_deb/tree/2.16.2).
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