Questions tagged [continuous-integration]
Continuous-Integration (CI) is the process of merging developer's working code copies to a shared codebase frequently to prevent or minimize integration problems. For questions about a specific CI system like [Jenkins] or [Travis-CI] use those tags instead.
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Branching strategy and CI/CD
We are planning to use the Git-flow branching strategy with CI/CD. It's a conscious decision not to use Trunk based development.
Here's what the pipeline looks like:
Here's what the process looks ...
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Setting up PR Build in Jenkins when raised from stash
Setting up a PR request to have a build run in Jenkins. Our source repository is Stash.
Essentially, the PR will be from any branch (each developer will create their own branches) to develop
I have ...
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Pull request and merge actions in CI/CD
The CI/CD pipeline supports pipelines per branch but no pipeline for feature branches is triggered automatically. There are pipelines deployed for the following branches: development, master. The ...
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How to lunch a Digital Ocean dropplet directly into a container Image?
From a CI pipeline I would like to be able to do the following.
Launch a droplet of a specific cpu/ram configuration with metadata to run a specific container image on start up
have the droplet run a ...
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Azure DevOps issue with GIT, Visual Studio and Azure (Umbraco)
I am completely new to Visual Studio, .net and Azure DevOps
I have a problem with GIT using the GIT bits (rather than CMD), in Visual Studio
I have a .Net application (Umbraco), that has been built ...
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invalid base hashes in `extends` with 'include' — gitlab-ci
I have a huge .gitlab-ci.yml file that I am trying to turn into the "main" ci file by moving some parts to another files which will then be called with the use of the "include" ...
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Using Docker images as vehicles for binary deployment artifacts
Let's say we're in an environment where we have a modern CI/CD pipeline for a number of containerized apps. We also have a number legacy apps which haven't been containerized yet.
I'm wondering how ...
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Trigger gitlab downstream pipeline from a upstream pipeline in a multi-project using trigger, rules and custom configuration variables
I have this scenario where I want to run the trigger in build stage only when $FLAG variable has been set by the .pre stage. However, the build stage never runs.
How should I conditionally trigger a ...
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How can I provide an unpackaged vendor binary to my build environment?
I want to run CI processes that depend on a vendor application which is released periodically as a new ZIP file (about 500MB), downloaded from behind a login on the vendor's website. When a new ...
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iptables rules to permit GitHub Actions from breaking (chains default to DROP)
Assuming my iptables rules default to DROP on the INPUT and OUTPUT chains, what is the bare minimum set of rules that I must add to my chains to prevent a script running in GitHub Actions from ...
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Deploying angular app to Azure with Github Actions failed. package.json not found
I am trying to deploy an Angular(10) WebApp to Azure with CI/CD using the Github Actions but I get an error saying the package.json cannot be found while running the npm install command.
This is my ...
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Can OLTP be an option to mock my database in my CI Tests?
I am working on some .NET applications with a rest API. These comprise both .NET Core and .NET Framework applications. In the CI build process, unit tests are running on Azure Devops Server. My unit ...
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devops - Optomizing gitlab cicd pipeline's caching
I have a gitlab yaml I've been working on for a bit and while everything works it seems like each job takes quite a bit longer than it should. I tend to think the culprit is that npm files are fetched ...
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Automated Benchmarking Environment based on Github Actions/Docker/AWS-EC2
We set up a benchmarking platform that allows to easily run docker containers which execute a (self-written) benchmark program with different encryption libraries and write the measured results to a ...
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How to test a core pipeline repo against another, dependent repo with Azure DevOps PR build validation?
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In my Azure DevOps project, I have multiple project repos using a common Azure DevOps pipeline. I have accomplished this by defining the pipeline in a core pipeline repo and then referring to ...
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Single Build Command / Continuous Integration
I was reading the Continuous Integration by Martin Fowler article yesterday, the article is from 2006 but I think it is still very applicable today, the statement around a single command stuck in my ...
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How to assign stages each to a different artifact in azure release pipeline (TFVC)
I have one release pipeline that has artifacts from multiple build pipelines. I want to have certain stages using a specific artifact (e.g. dev artifact to dev stage). Note that I am using TFVC. How ...
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gitlab CI job fails after manual ftp deploy (lftp) command completes successfully
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I'm using LFTP to deploy files via sftp. The transfer completes successfully and all files get to the destination but for some reason the job fails.
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How can I find out what is ...
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How to render assets when building a static website with GitLab Pages and Jekyll
I'm using Jekyll to build a static site and deploy it with GitLab Pages. This site is compounded of posts (contained in the site/_posts folder) and refer to other HTML and Markdown documents that I ...
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How to copy library source code from other Git repo to an Android Gradle application GitLab build process?
There is an Android application using Grandle for build. It uses a "library" stated in build.gradle file:
dependencies {
api project(path: ':specialproject.speciallibrary', configuration:...
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Devops CICD run ReactJS application while testing with jest + puppeteer [closed]
Scenario
I'm working on getting my end-to-end tests to work in a GitLab pipeline. Currently all the tests run locally but I'm having an issue getting them to run using GitLab's continuous integration ...
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Gitlab CI push to docker-registry fails
I have GitLab server and a separate docker-registry. I have created a testuser with a testpassword.
My .gitlab-ci.yml
image: docker:latest
services:
- docker:18.09.7-dind
variables:
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Pipeline gitlab showned as “running” even though it isn't
I'm using gitlab CI/CD and I have a pipeline which does the following things :
code verification
build
some test
deploy in a test environment (manual)
Some more tests
If we don't do the deploy, ...
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Gitlab: Always having the possibility to launch a manual job (even if something failed before)
I'm using gitlab-ci. I have a pipeline that has the following steps :
code-verification
some tests
deploy (manual)
some more tests
rollback (manual)
Both the deploy and the rollback job have to ...
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Getting job-id inside a job in Concourse Pipeline
Is it possible to get the current job's ID (or any other metadata for that matter) within a given running job in a concourse pipeline?
I saw this documentation of metadata in resources . However, I ...
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TeamCity Error Unable to update database to match the current model because there are pending changes and automatic migration is disabled
During the last step of the build process, I use a command prompt runner to use migrate.exe to migrate the target database to latest based on the code-first models in the solution and I'm getting the ...
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How to specify 'os' for free gitlab runners ('runs-on' equivalent)
How can I specify the operating system in the .gitlab-ci file to indicate which underlying OS on which the gitlab-runner should be running when using the 2,000 minutes of free execution in with gitlab....
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Create pull request for docker dependency package if outdated
Platform: GitHub
CI/CD: GitHub Actions
Additional technologies: Docker with Ubuntu base image
I'm creating a Dockerfile and I need to install a package (such as Terraform). Every time the '...
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Run integration test with ansible playbook using terraform provisioning
Ok so I am totally new to devops! I am an experienced developer, but at my new job I have been tasked to automate CI/CD. Non-existing so far. Only CI with Travis.
So the ideal workflow is:
Push to CI ...
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Does Buildbot support complicated build/deploy scenarios?
I need a tool/framework for CI/CD which can:
Support multi-repository project
Build and ship only changed part (frontend/backend) using revison hashes to decide
Ship some branches (release candidate ...
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How is it a good practice to version your helm charts for each deployment?
I'm trying to set up a process to release a web app with helm in my company and I can't find a satisfying way.
Basically each for each push in a feature branch, I want to:
Build a docker image and ...
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SonarQube SCA fails on projects without Unit tests\VC++ and on projects where few Unit tests fail. How to fix this?
I finally started using SonarQube for code analysis in my projects recently, by setting up a community version of SonarQube server(offline) and was successfully able to integrate it on 2 of my .Net ...
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How do I add my own package to a GitHub workflow?
I am trying to use the basic .NET Core Github workflow as shown here, but I am having trouble with a GitHub package I created. When the workflow gets to the Install Depedencies which performs a donet ...
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How to deploy docker images on a remote Docker daemon without rebuilding the image
I want to deploy docker images that are built on our GitLab CI runner to a server. I would very much like to avoid rebuilding the images on the server, as the build is very time-consuming.
I have ...
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What are the daily job duties of a devops? [duplicate]
I have been working for linux management over 10 years. In the last 5 years, I have added a lot of coding experience through software development like php, ruby, go, etc. I wanna be a devops, but I ...
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Continuous deployment
I have a nodejs application using expressjs. This server is handing a website built on vuejs, an application using angular and another angular app. Everything is working and I deployed to AWS eb using ...
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How comes a GitLab CI/CD job cant' find its artifacts?
In the Open Source ventilator project, we aim to provide those who focus on testing with a ready-to-go flash file for the Arduino controller board.
While the binaries seem to be there, for some ...
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What can be considered as an artifact [duplicate]
Recently, I have had a lecture at my university about advanced testing and CI. To understand all concepts, I was searching what artifact represents, specifically in DevOps sphere. I found many ...
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On Premise CI / CD recommendations for Docker images
We have TFS building Docker images, and loading them into a Private Registry on one network, our Development Network. Everything works well, and we are generally happy with the CI process in that ...
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What are best practices for over-committing resources in a staging environment?
Suppose there is a staging environment very strapped for resources as new development, data workloads and other applications grow. Ideally one would like to maintain production parity, even at the ...
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Spinnaker vs GitLab CI
Does Spinnaker have any features that make it worth using on top of GitLab CI (assuming a Gold GitLab plan with all features available)?
GitLab seems to support canary deploys, review apps, manual ...
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What is a gating continuous integration (CI) system?
I often find myself in the position of mentioning gating CI systems and I thought it would be good to have a post I can easily reference explaining what that is. So here goes:
What is a gating CI ...
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Application version and Database Schema version mapping
I am trying to integrate database schema versioning in an existing project where schema is not versioned at all.
Is it a good practice to create a tight mapping between application version and ...
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Mail logs with Jenkins
I am deploying my software on different OS ( Red hat & suse) and I need to know if my latest version of the software will work. In order to check if the installation works it's enough to check ...
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Azure DevOps - Conditionally Build and Deploy
Say we have 6 microservices in a monorepo, each with their own CI build pipeline that is currently only building each project and running unit tests. Is there a way to identify which projects have had ...
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How to avoid wasting time/resources in a CI/CD workflow?
Ideally, a team should be able to run all the pipelines on every commit and automatically deploy to production.
However, I don't understand how to most effeciently use our resources so that hours ...
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Building Jenkins pipeline with GitLab info
I am new to DevOps world and desperately looking for your help.
We have multiple API depositors in GitLab subgroup, I am trying to establish a CI/CD pipeline, which will connect to GitLab subgroup,
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Database Backup using jenkins
I would like to take MSSQL server db backup. Is there any plugin available for it.
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Using 32 bit for savings
What are the downsides for CI servers to use 32 bit Docker images?
For example, using FROM i386/python:3.6.9-alpine3.9 instead of python:3.6.9-alpine3.9 in Dockerfile.
python:3.6.9-alpine3.9 (32 bit,...
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How to automate installing an ISO in a VM?
We're trying to develop CI/CD processes to automate testing and installing our builds. Ya know, as one does in DevOps.
The end result of our build process are ISOs that use Red Hat Kickstart to ...
