Continuous Integration with TravisCI

Justin James

Continuous Integration

Frequently integrating code into a shared repository with an automated build for each check-in 

 

Detect problems early and locate them more easily.

 

www.thoughtworks.com/continuous-integration

"Continuous Integration doesn’t get rid of bugs, but it does make them dramatically easier to find and remove.”

Martin Fowler, Chief Scientist, ThoughtWorks

CI More than a process

backed by several practices and principles

  • Maintain a Single Respository

  • Automate the build

  • Keep the build fast

  • Every commit should build on an integration machine

  • Test in a clone of the production environment

Practices

  • Developers check out code 

  • Developer commit the change 

  • CI server monitors the repo for changes

  • CI server builds the system and runs tests

  • CI server informs the team of build status

  • If build or test fails, team fixes at the earliest opportunity

How to do it

  • Check in frequently

  • Don't check in broken code

  • Don't check in untested code

  • Don't check in when the build is broken

  • Don't go home after checking in until the system builds

Team Responsibilities

Automate Tests are Key

CI without tests is like never changing the oil in your car.  It is just a matter of time before it blows up.  

 said by me, just now

TravisCI

Hosted continuous integration service for open-source and private projects.

https://travis-ci.org/

Android   C/C++   Clojure   Erlang   Go   Groovy

Haskell   Java   Javascript   NodeJS   Objective-C 

Perl   Php   Phython   Ruby   Scala

MySQL  PostgreSQL  MongoDB  CouchDB

Redis  Riak  RabbitMQ  Memcached

Cassandra  Neo4j  Elasticsearch

Krestel   SQLLite3  ZeroMQ

Services

Email   IRC   Campfire   Flowdock

HipChat   Pushover   Sqwiggle  

Slack   Webhook

Notifications

Heroku   Azure Web Apps   Github Releases 

Google App Engine   Google Cloud Storage

 AWS Opsworks   AWS Code Deploy   

Deploy

https://docs.travis-ci.com/

Docs

How does it work?

login

http://travis-ci.org

service hook

git push

git add .travis.yml

git commit .travis.yml

git push

git add .travis.yml

git commit .travis.yml

service hook

run tests / builds

fresh environments

Build Lifecycle

  • before_install
  • install
  • before_script
  • script
  • after_success
  • after_failure
  • before_deploy
  • deploy
  • after_deploy
  • after_script

docs.travis-ci.com/user/customizing-the-build

.travis.yml

language: ruby
cache: bundler
sudo: true
rvm:
  - 2.0.0
before_install:
  - sudo apt-get -qq update
  - sudo apt-get install ncftp
  - gem install bundler
  - gem install html-proofer
script:
  - chmod +x scripts/build
  - ./scripts/build
after_success:
  - chmod +x scripts/deploy
  - ./scripts/deploy
env:
  global:
  - NOKOGIRI_USE_SYSTEM_LIBRARIES=true

.travis.yml

# blacklist
branches:
  except:
    - master
# whitelist
branches:
  only:
    - scheduled

build script

bundle exec jekyll build 
   --config _config.yml,_configdev.yml,_configazure.yml 
   --drafts

deploy script

    
ncftp -u "$USERNAME" -p "$PASSWORD" $HOST<<EOF
rm -rf site/wwwroot
mkdir site/wwwroot
quit
EOF

cd _site
rm robots.txt
touch robots.txt
echo -e "# robots.txt" >> robots.txt
echo -e "User-agent: *" >> robots.txt
echo -e "Disallow: /" >> robots.txt
echo -e "Disallow: /cgi-bin/" >> robots.txt

ncftpput -R -v -u "$USERNAME" -p "$PASSWORD" $HOST /site/wwwroot .

htmlproofer ./_site --only-4xx

Secret Info

Pricing

Demo Time

Alternatives

Hosted:

  • Visual Studio Team Services 

 

Self-Hosted:

 

  • Jenkins

  • Cruise Control .NET

  • Team City

 

Cost to Create CI

  • It is not free

  • It is code that has to be maintained

  • More complicated the app, more complicated CI can be

  • Not every tech stack plays well with command line tools

  • Benefits far out weight the cost 

thank you

 

 

@digitaldrummerj - digitaldrummerj@gmail.com

http://digitaldrummerj.me

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