I want quickbuild to automatically run on each push detected on a github repository. How can I do that?
I already have a flow that clones and executes mvn deploy but I am missing an automatic trigger.
QuickBuild 5.1 adds the ability of detecting pull requests and trigger relevant builds off them. Refer to the GitHub integration guide for details:
http://wiki.pmease.com/display/QB51/Working+with+GitHub
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Azure DevOps Release pipeline artifact settings has 2 options:
Continuous deployment trigger - Enabling the trigger will create a new release every time a new build is available.
Pull request trigger - Enabling this will create a release every time a selected artifact is available as part of a pull request workflow
I am trying to understand what is the difference between these options with respect to the highlighted parts and whether the build validation policy causes release to trigger with both options, if so then why do we have pull request trigger?
In my opinion, these two triggers have different working scope.
Assuming we set one CI build as release artifact, according to my test:
1.Continuous deployment trigger:
Whenever we have a new version of the Build, it triggers the release. It means that no matter the build pipeline is triggered by manual run, CI trigger or build validation in branch policy, the release is triggered when there's one newer build.
2.Pull request trigger:
It has a smaller scope, it will be trigger by the build pipeline which is trigger by build validation in branch policy.
(Which is triggered by PR, so if we create new PR=>It triggers PR build=>It triggers PR release)
Feel free to correct me if I misunderstand anything.
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Here's one pic about my two tests:
Release-8 is triggered by my manual running Build pipeline with only CD triggered enabled. And Release-7 is triggered by PR build with only PR triggered enabled. (I only enable the Pull Request for deployment in Stage 1)
Apart from working scope, these two triggers also have a little difference here. The Pull Request Deployment in stage for now is only for PR trigger in Artifact.
This explains that very well (taken from documentation):
Pull requests (PRs) provide an effective way to have code reviewed
before it is merged to the codebase. However, certain issues can be
tricky to find until the code is built and deployed to an environment.
Before the introduction of pull request release triggers, when a PR
was raised, you could trigger a build, but not a deployment. Pull
request triggers enable you to create pull request releases that
deploy your PR code or PR builds to detect deployment issues before
the code changes are merged. You can use pull request triggers with
code hosted on Azure Repos or GitHub.
New build basically means that your pipeline was executed.
Creating pull request trigger you need to define an artifact which will be later deployed. For this kind of trigger Azure Devops runs your pipeline and produce artifact according to your pipeline/build definition and later use this artifact for deployment.
Both trigger are similar, the difference is when your code will be deployed before or after being merged into main branch.
PR trigger is part of CI - applies when your merge your branch to master
CD trigger - applies only to the master branch
I want to add this trigger : "GitHub hook trigger for GITScm polling" to my pipeline. Do anybody know how can i do it ? I've tried to find in offical documentation but no success.
GitHub hook triggers are not yet supported by the Pipeline syntax.
The official documentation says:
For Pipelines which are integrated with a source such as GitHub or BitBucket, triggers may not be necessary as webhooks-based integration will likely already be present. The triggers currently available are cron, pollSCM and upstream.
So, enabling it through the job configuration page from the Jenkins UI is currently the way to go.
I created a GitLab "CI/CD for external repo" and linked my GitHub.
I then set up mirroring to Pull from that GitHub.
I would have expected when I push to my GitHub, it would show the latest code in the GitLab and automatically start running my GitLab CI pipeline right away, but I noticed this only happens after about 1 hour delay, so I've been pressing the "Update Now" button every time.
This is extremely inconvenient, so am I missing a step to have it simply get the latest code and run the pipeline on every push to GitHub?
When mirroring a GitHub repository using GitLabs "CI/CD for external repo" feature, you must use an account with admin access on the GitHub repository so that GitLab can use your credentials to set up a web hook, which will notify GitLab when there are changes to be pulled.
The webhook URL will look like https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/12345678/mirror/pull. I don't think you can create this manually as it needs to be set up with a secret, so you probably need to remove the project from GitLab and reconnect it.
My requirement is whenever developer try to do check-in existing GitLab repository then before doing check-in in repository,build should trigger (Jenkins build) and Junit test case should run on new check-in and if passes then it should go forward and will allow developer to do check-in in main repository.
I am not sure but is pre-hook commit can achieve this requirement?
While you could achieve this with pre-commit hooks, it's more common to do so with post-commit hooks on the server-side.
You can achieve this by operating a branch based workflow, there are multiple to choose from - I would recommend reading through this guidance by Atlassian.
Developers will create branches from a 'main' branch (often master, but can be a 'dev' branch working towards a release for instance), then develop code on that branch. They will then push their branch and commits to the remote repository (GitLab). When ready to merge into the main branch, your developers can open a merge request onto the main branch.
On GitLab you can setup a webhook to trigger Jenkins builds when a push event occurs. I would recommend this guide to guide you through it.
In the GitLab project settings you can require a passing build before merge requests are allowed to merge.
Furthermore, your understanding of Git seems incorrect - check in is not a term used in Git. Please take a look at the Git documentation. In Git a developer creates commits against a local copy of the repository, then pushes these to a remote repository (GitLab/GitHub etc.). There is no direct equivalent of the 'check in' used in various centralised version control systems e.g. SVN.
We have setup and perfectly running gitlab + gitlab-ci installation. We are now looking how to do cross-project builds. Our project is divided into several repositories and everything is joined during build process via composer.
What I would like to achieve is - when you commit to any of those repositories, they trigger main repository to get built. I was trying to achieve this via webhooks, unfortunately I need a lot of information about commit from the main repository, that I don't have.
Any idea how to do it?
I updated gitlab-ci code a little bit: https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlab-ci/commit/7c7066b0d5a35097a04bb31848d6b622195940ed
I can now call the api.