Drone Testing

This repo contains the definition of the infrastructure used for dotty's CI, based Drone >= 1.0.0.

Prerequisites

Docker version 17.06 or higher and Docker Compose must be installed.

Docker Compose is a tool for defining and running multi-container Docker applications. To learn more about Compose refer to the documentation.

Setting up Drone

We use a multi-machine drone setup where lampsrv43 acts as master (= drone-server) and lampsrv9 and lampsrv26 as runners (= drone-agent).

The environment is defined by the drone-server and drone-agent docker-compose definition files.

Starting / Restarting Drone

On the central 'master' drone server:

$ docker-compose --file /etc/drone/drone-server.yml up --force-recreate -d

On any drone agent:

$ docker-compose --file /etc/drone/drone-agent.yml up --force-recreate -d

• --file sets the path of the docker-compose definition file.
• --force-recreate recreates containers even if their configuration and image haven't changed.
• -d runs containers in the background and prints new container names.

A Makefile is provided for your convenience.

Monitoring

Agents:

• lamprv9: CPU Memory
• lampsrv26: CPU Memory

Repo Installation

The Dotty repo contains a .drone.yml file that contains the necessary settings for drone to run the CI.

The repo is then activated via the UI on http://dotty-ci.epfl.ch or from the commandline using:

$ drone repo add lampepfl/dotty

Installation instructions for the drone command.

Secrets Management

Drone provides the ability to store sensitive information such as passwords. Secrets are loaded as environment variables. For example the secret named sonatype_user can be accessed via "$SONATYPE_USER". Use lower case to name your secrets and upper case to access their value.

You can add secrets to a build via the UI on http://dotty-ci.epfl.ch or from the command line using:

$ drone secret add --repository=lampepfl/dotty --name=<name> --value=<value>

Dotty Docker Image

This docker image is set up in order to run the tests for Dotty. It is currently pushed to lampepfl/dotty on Docker hub.

To build the image, simply:

$ cd dotty-docker
$ docker build --no-cache -t lampepfl/dotty:$(date +%F) .
$ docker login
$ docker push lampepfl/dotty:$(date +%F)

The new image should now appear in https://hub.docker.com/r/lampepfl/dotty/tags/. The next step is to open a PR againts https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty to change the tag of the docker image in .drone.yml.