Geode Native Concourse Pipeline

The Geode Native Concourse pipeline is actually two Concourse pipelines. The primary release pipeline builds the release artifacts for a given branch, like develop, release or support branch. The secondary pull request (pr) pipeline builds the same artifacts as the release pipeline but for pull requests and without actually releasing or publishing anything.

The pipeline is fully self updating and can easily be bootstrapped into a properly configured Concourse deployment. Concourse configuration requires TBD. Changes to the ci source directory will results in auto updates to the pipelines.

Because Concourse workers aren't available on all platforms and have issues with resource sharing this pipeline utilizes external builders. These builders are currently Google Compute VMs that are launched on demand for each build.

Pipeline Setup

The pipeline can be installed or reconfigured via the set-pipelin.sh shell script.

./set-pipeline.sh --help

Examples

Given the local repository looks like the following:

$ git remote get-url origin
git@github.com:some-user/geode-native.git

$ git branch --show-current
wip/some-branch

Typical

The most typical usage should require nothing more than the Concourse target, unless that happens to be named “default”. Everything else has reasonable defaults based on the currently checked out branch.

$ ./set-pipeline.sh --target=some-concourse

Executes fly from the path setting pipeline to target some-concourse for GitHub owner some-user repository geode-native.git. Pipeline names will be some-user-wip-something and some-user-wip-something-pr.

Alternative repository URL and fly version

Sometimes you will have to support multiple versions of Concourse fly or need to fetch sources via https.

$ ./set-pipeline.sh \
  --fly=/path/to/fly \
  --target=some-concourse \
  --github-owner=other-user

Executes fly at /path/to/fly setting pipeline to target some-concourse for GitHub owner other-user repository geode-native.git. Pipelines name will be some-user-wip-something and some-user-wip-something-pr.

Pipeline Steps

Release

Detects new version or source
Build for each platform and configuration
- Creates VM instances
- Waits for VM instance to be accessible
- Builds and packages
- Runs all tests
- If anything fails it downloads the build directory for later analysis
- Deletes the VM instances
- Uploads artifacts to GCS
Publishes to GitHub release (TODO)
Detects changes to pipeline sources and auto updates

Pull Release (PR)

Detects new PR
Build for each platform and configuration
- Creates VM instances
- Waits for VM instance to be accessible
- Builds and packages
- Runs all tests
- If anything fails it downloads the build directory for later analysis
- Deletes the VM instances
- Updates PR status
Detects changes to pipeline sources and auto updates

Details

This Concourse pipeline YAML is rendered using ytt. Depends on output from git and gcloud.

Dependencies

Google Cloud
Concourse v6.5.0+
ytt v0.28.0+
git v2.25.2+
yq v4.6.0+ (optional for set-pipeline script)
gcloud SDK

Layout

base - Defines all common tasks across both pipelines.
release - Defines tasks tasks for release pipeline only.
pr - Defines tasks for pr pipeline only.
lib - ytt functions used by all templates.
docker/task - Minimal image required to communicate with builders.

TODO

Concourse Installation

Resolve chicken/egg problem with external API address.
- helm install concourse concourse/concourse
- helm upgrade concourse concourse/concourse --set web.service.api.type=LoadBalancer,concourse.web.externalUrl=http://1.2.3.4:8080
Task for getting secrets into k8s.
- kubectl create secret generic gcr-json-key --from-literal "value=$(cat XXX.json)" --namespace=concourse-main
- kubectl create secret generic github-access-token --from-literal "value=XXX" --namespace=concourse-main
- kubectl create secret generic github-private-key --from-literal "value=$(cat XXX)" --namespace=concourse-main
Use docker locally for initial pipeline deployment to avoid gcloud, ytt, and fly version issues.