Submitted 1 year ago by kersplort@programming.dev to experienced_devs@programming.dev
What’s something you’ve gotten into your CICD pipeline recently that you like?
I recently automated a little bot for our GitHub CICD. It runs a few tests that we care about, but don’t want to block deployment, and posts them on the PR. It uses gh pr comment --edit-last so it isn’t spammint the channel. It’s been pretty helpful in automating some of the more annoying parts of code review.
We have strict data sovereignty requirements, so we do a lot of self hosting. We are also a kubernetes shop, so we’ve been using the Argo-CD / Argo Workflows combo. I quite like it, there’s a lot of freedom to spin up and container and do anything you want in it while passing results to the next step, it might be too much freedom for some folks though. CD systems have some variety to them since there’s so many ways to deploy code, but CI systems all feel pretty similar to me.
I’ve been using Jenkins for almost a decade and it’s my goto for any CI/CD work just cause of the wide plugin support, documentation, integration with other tools and at this point, familiarity. It integrates nicely with Jira where i can see Jenkins build status for a given story, It shows up as GitHub checks to add against a PR, it can push/pull artifacts to Artifactory, have HTML view of test results, slack messages, open source if you’re into that and it can do a lot more.
In the Nix ecosystem, I appreciate Cachix quite a bit. It’s much easier than running a Hydra.
I’ve ran into Drone CI about a year ago and I like it. I wanted to self-host something simple next to my gitea instance, and after a few hours I had it mostly set up. And in the course of a week I had it all figured out, I don’t bother with it any more.
It’s basically hands-free operation the way I have it set up, works with my gitea as said so I’m happy.
We’re using Ansible for a lot of stuff, with Semaphore as a frontend.
Semaphore has rudimentary support for CI/CD. We don’t need all the bells and whistles of something like Jenkins, and Semaphore is saving us from having yet another software to know and and maintain.
Jenkins and GitLab runners. They get bad reputation, but are extremely powerful and easy to start with, much faster than GH actions, more popular and better documented than other enterprise alternatives.
I don’t have much experience with setting up ci/cd stuff. But last time i tried Circle CI and it was really easy to set up and get working. I’m thinking of looking into GitHub actions soon though.
We use build kite, I like it better as an end user than other things I’ve used (circle ci, Travis, bamboo). I haven’t been on devops setup end of it much so can’t really talk to that end. I’ve liked what I’ve used of gh actions as well.
Shaikan@programming.dev 1 year ago
GitHub actions seems the best to me atm