Nix wrapper on top of buildbot to manage the configuration of the master and workers in nix.
Bolted Buildbot is a set of nix expression and bash scripts that allows you to reliable manage your CI/CD/CB systems based on buildbot, by adding a set of additional scripts to manage your buildbot instance and more importantly to consider the buildbot configuration as a dependency of the deployment.
By considering the Builtbot Master or Worker configuration as a dependency you can safely upgrade and rollback your configuration changes.
The core idea is that Bolted Buildbot allows you to tread your CI system with lot less care by forcing you to go over the nix layer first and implicitly visioning your changes by making your current configs read only and any new change would have to be on a new derivation.
First and foremost, you have to have Nix either implicitly by using NixOS or by using just Nix on MacOS or Linux.
The main entry point to use Bolted Buildbot is by using release.nix and configure
the parameters in the nix expression.
Parameters:
- nixpkgs
- It should point to a checkout of nixpkgs
preferably to a recent stable release like: 18.03. By default it will try to use the envvar
NIX_PATHfor<nixpkgs>. - masterSrc
- The master source. Default to
null. - masterConfigFile
- Master config file in JSON format. Default to
null. - masterPlugins
- Master buildbot plugins. Default to
[ "www" "console-view" "waterfall-view" "grid-view" "wsgi-dashboards" "badges" ]. - externalMasterDir
- Base directory on which the Master Bolted Buildbot would be deployed. Default to
/tmp/bbb-master. - externalWorkerDir
- Base directory on which the Worker Bolted Buildbot would be deployed. Default to
/tmp/bbb-worker. - workerConfigFile
- Worker config file in JSON format. Default to
null