Minimalist Countinous Integration & Delivery Tool
There are a lot of different Continous Integration and Continous Delivery tools around. Jenkins might be the most known and used.
IMHO mostly all of these tools are too big and they do not exactly do what I want.
For the last two years I used Jenkins in my every day's job - but it does only 80% of that what I want. There might plugins for the missing features - but the many many plugins and the interactions between them are the major source of problems.
After that I had a short look at gitlab-ci and go cd. gitlab-ci looks good, but miss some features that I miss. After installing the gocd package (143MByte) the server was not reachable: no sensible logs. Did you try to debug such a beast?
Therefore I started over starting with something small and usable.
mincid should
- build projects
- be able to build projects on different variants: (e.g. different compilers, different libraries, different processor types, ...)
- start each build in a separated environment: Maybe Docker is used
- use an easy text file based configuration: Maybe JSON based and stored in a git repo
- use an easy notification mechanism (in case of a problem): Maybe EMail and IRC
- provide easy access to artifacts and log files: Maybe NFS export
- (Optional) provide statistics information to a Carbon / Graphite instance
There are some not requirements - things mincid will never implement:
- GUI
- Millions of plugins and modules
- Complex structure
Docker is used for the mincid jobs: each time a new 'plain' Docker container is started.
SLURM does the resource and job handling on the lower level.
The whole system uses a centralized LDAP server (IPA) for authentication and key storage.
git is used for handling the source code for the different projects to build / deliver as well as for project configuration of mincid itself.
A email server is used to send notifications about jobs.
python3 is used a programming language - the glue between the executing systems.
There is a separate installation page describing all the needed steps.