we've created a continuous integration workflow with Gitlab (v7.9.2) and Jenkins(v1.596.2). We defined a Jenkins job to build every push that is made to every repository on Gitlab with the Gitlab hook:
http://xx.xx.xx.xx:8080/gitlab/build_now
It's bad practice to let one job build all the tasks so we want to use the Gitlab-Web-hook plugin to define a template job witch creates a new job for every unknown repository that triggers the Web Hook, like described in the Gitlab-Web-hook plugin description under section Templates for unknown repositories.
The plugin can be configured to automatically create projects when the hook is activated by a GitLab repo unknown to Jenkins.
Now we have difficulties finding the right configuration, or even how to start integrating this plugin into the workflow. We spend a day searching for tutorials of default configurations on this subject and couldnt find any.
We hope the community can help us with this or set us off with some usefull hints, trics or tutorials. It's the last piece of the puzzle for us.
Thank you
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I'm new to Bamboo and currently learning & using the Bamboo as a standalone server in my company. There I can see the much-advanced options like creating the Build Plans, separate deployment projects based on different environments and also can integrate with notifications and triggers.
I wanted to do a lot of research and learning by myself at home so I was looking for a cloud-based version of Bamboo which I can straight away use to perform similar task like creating build plans, etc. I do not see anything cloud version of Bamboo but I can see BitBucket (cloud-based). What I know is that it is a source code repository like GitHub and GitLab and it has integration with inbuilt CI/CD.
Q1. Is BitBucket a cloud version of source code repository plus Bamboo?
Q2. If not, then do we have cloud version of Bamboo with exact options like build plans, deployment projects, etc
Q3. Also, I'm looking if there is any Bot which I can use like SlackBot or DeployBot to invoke or trigger the Bamboo Build Plan with a chat command? Slack I'm familiar but not DeployBot. I can get the Bamboo build notifications to my Slack channel but not the other way around.
I'm learning and doing research & development hence required clarification on my doubts from experts in this DevOps field to show me the right path.
Please suggest as I'm looking for setting up Bamboo with Bot instructing my build plans.
Thank you
Doing hands-on experience in company on Bamboo and learning as much as I can and playing around with it.
Bamboo Cloud was discontinued in January 2017. Bitbucket Cloud can still notify your Bamboo instance via webhook, assuming you configure Bamboo and your firewall and the webhook properly, or you can use Bitbucket Pipelines for the all-in-one approach.
You can also use Bitbucket Server if you'd prefer to keep everything behind the firewall.
I'm developing a web application using python django. I want a CI service which can automatically pull the latest code from my github and run some test then deploy. I'm not familiar with CI, after searching for a while I found Jenkins seems to be a good solution. Can Jenkins be used for this?
Jenkins can be used with any project.
Regarding pulling the latest code, add the Jenkins GitHub plugin in order to be able to check "Build when a change is pushed to GitHub" under "Build Triggers".
That will launch your job on any new pushed commit on the GitHub repo.
From there, a Jenkins job can execute any command that you would do in command-line, provided the agent on which said job will be scheduled and executed has the necessary tools in its PATH (here python)
An alternative (which does not involved Jenkins) is to setup a webhook and a listener on your server which will detect a "push event" sent by said webhook.
I am trying to understand how to best deploy an instance of Jenkins, complete with plugins, users and jobs using Chef. I am currently using the Chef Jenkins Supermarket cookbook.
I am attempting to achieve automated deployment of our Pipelines as part of the project. From what I have gathered, the best way to go about this is to have Chef configure a seed job in Jenkins initial setup and configuration.
The seed job should specify, among other things, the git repository from which to find and use a Jenkinsfile for a given job. I've found this resource by Daniel Spilker to be helpful in explaining seed jobs.
So the seed Jenkins job would be run, which would then generate the Jenkins job we have just scripted with it (in this case the seed job would be to pull the Jenkinsfile from source control and configure a new Jenkins job (our pipeline), with the details of the Jenkinsfile).
Am I understanding this correctly as the proper way to not only automate Jenkins job configuration, but also as the proper way to always have an up to date job configuration for any given job in the event the job configuration were to change?
If we used a seed job to setup our pipeline, what are some possible solutions to having the initial seed job run automatically once Jenkins is fully configured by Chef?
As for job configuration changes that may occur over time, would we need to setup the seed job to poll source control for any changes in the Jenkinsfile periodically in the event the Jenkinsfile has been modified? (It may be helpful to note that we are currently using BitBucket for source control).
Just getting started with pipeline as code. Thanks to everybody in advance for their patience and guidance.
I've mentioned this a bit in your other questions, but the least painful approach is to treat Jenkins as a database, not a web service. Have Chef do the basic install, but then configure the initial bits by hand. For DR, rely on your backups rather than Chef.
What do you put into the system hook URL? I see a lot of examples but they look like JSON scripts to me.
I'm trying to configure gitlab to hook jenkins to create projects when projects are generated in gitlab. I'd also like builds to be run when a merge (pull) request is generated for a repo.
I've followed the steps outlined here for the gitlab hook plugin:
http://doc.gitlab.com/ee/integration/jenkins.html
But it's still not generating builds on push requests. Perhaps i don't have something setup right?
I have also tried and failed to configure Gitlab to integrate with Jenkins by following the instructions at http://doc.gitlab.com/ee/integration/jenkins.html#jenkins-service
For me the reason was that I didn't have Gitlab EE installed. The page specifically states: "The Jenkins project service code is only available in GitLab EE"
I discovered by chance my answer. In gitlab under the project settings you can add the following hook to trigger a build on a pull request or commit.
http://gitlab.example.com/job/example_project/build?token=UserToken.
I believe I saw it in Jenkins.
Now i've installed the gitlab plugin and i've tried the build_commit? hook and some other hooks but i was running into other errors such as asking for repo location when i've provided it. This does the trick though and i'm happy enough for now.
I've read the differences between Gitlab Community and Enterprise in this page: https://about.gitlab.com/features/
Based on that page I understand the integration with Jenkins is only available in the enterprise version. However, I've seen that using web hooks I can trigger builds in Jenkins when a push happens in Gitlab.
So my question is which is the difference between community and enterprise regarding the integration with jenkins?
On the merge request page, there is a state widget that shows the status of tests for that particular merge request, and on your project home page, there is test status badging. These two UI elements only show up if you enable a 'ci service' on the project. In community you can turn it on with Gitlab CI. In enterprise you can set it up to work with jenkins.
Based on that page I understand the integration with Jenkins is only
available in the enterprise version.
This is no longer true, the Jenkins GitLab Plugin (from a 3rd party) works to hook Jenkins into GitLab as a CI provider.
The wiki page has an example setup with lots of details you'll need to get it working.
This will give per-commit build/test status indicators in GitLab and also hook into the Merge Request system (both in the local repo and when merge requests come from forked repos).
You can also integrate GitLab with Jenkins using the Generic Webhook Trigger Plugin.
An example of integrating with that plugin, to perform static code analysis on merge requests, is available in the Violation Comments to GitLab Plugin wiki page.