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| layout: post |
| status: PUBLISHED |
| published: true |
| title: Bringing GitPubSub to the Apache Jenkins build server |
| id: 81d6b491-33be-43f3-a1f5-3d084bd75e59 |
| date: '2017-03-26 01:07:08 -0400' |
| categories: infra |
| tags: |
| - github |
| - gitpubsub |
| - jenkins |
| - git |
| permalink: infra/entry/bringing-gitpubsub-to-the-apache |
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| <p> |
| When it comes to <a href="#Jenkins">[Jenkins</a>], it has long been known that [polling must die].</p> |
| <p>While we could go and create post commit hooks in all the ASF hosted Git repositories, that is something that realistically is just creating an added maintenance burden.</p> |
| <p>In any case, we have [GitPubSub]. </p> |
| <p>The question then becomes, how do we integrate [GitPubSub] with [Jenkins]?</p> |
| <p>Thankfully, ASF committer stephenc is also an active committer to the [Jenkins] project and created a [plugin] that connects to [GitPubSub] parses the events and passes them through to the Jenkins [SCM API].</p> |
| <p> |
| What does this mean?</p> |
| <p>* You can turn your Git polling down - way way down - to something like once per day.<br /> |
| This should significantly reduce the load on both the ASF git servers and builds.apache.org<br />* Your builds will be triggered in seconds rather than having to wait for the next polling run.<br />* You can try out using Multi-branch projects much like the [Maven] project has been doing for [Maven core] and [Maven Surefire]</p> |
| <p> |
| If the reaction to this change proves positive, the next step will be to integrate SvnPubSub with Jenkins and bring the benefits to the Subversion based projects too</p></p> |
| <p>See also this blog post by Stephen Connolly:</p> |
| <p> <a href="https://www.cloudbees.com/blog/using-multi-branch-pipelines-apache-maven-project">https://www.cloudbees.com/blog/using-multi-branch-pipelines-apache-maven-project</a></p> |
| <p>[polling must die]: http://kohsuke.org/2011/12/01/polling-must-die-triggering-jenkins-builds-from-a-git-hook/<br />[GitPubSub]: https://www.apache.org/dev/gitpubsub.html<br /> |
| <br /> <a name="Jenkins">[Jenkins]</a>: https://jenkins.io/<br /> |
| <br />[plugin]: https://github.com/stephenc/asf-gitpubsub-jenkins-plugin<br /> |
| <br />[SCM API]: https://plugins.jenkins.io/scm-api<br /> |
| <br />[Maven]: https://maven.apache.org<br /> |
| <br />[Maven core]: https://builds.apache.org/job/maven-3.x-jenkinsfile/<br /> |
| <br /> [Maven Surefire]: https://builds.apache.org/job/maven-surefire-pipeline/</p> |
| <p>Posted on behalf of Committer Stephen Connolly (stephenc)</p> |
