DevOps Glue

Task Automation with Gitlab-CI and Groovy

Kevin Wittek

Technical Lead @ GDATA Advanced Analytics

Consultant @ Styracosoft GbR

Maintainer Testcontainers-Java / Author Testcontainers-Spock

https://groovy-coder.com

         @Kiview

          https://github.com/kiview

DevOps includes automation

https://www.singaporebusiness.com/2017/automation-in-the-manufacturing-sector-helping-workers-ride-the-change.html

https://www.videoblocks.com/video/businessman-manager-reading-pie-chart-checking-data-sales-report-london-skyline-hf9qhcgnliwt4e21t

https://blog.nexcess.net/2014/02/06/cron-job-for-every-three-days/

https://xkcd.com/1728/

Take THAT, piece of 1980s-era infrastructure I've inexplicably maintained on my systems for 15 years despite never really learning how it works.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/why-i-ditched-my-servers-for-the-cloud/

Gitlab (+ Gitlab-CI)

• Git Repository UI
• Issue Tracker
• Wiki
• CI/CD
• Docker Container Registry
• Gitlab-Pages
• Monitoring
• Open Source + Open Core (Community Edition)

https://about.gitlab.com/features/gitlab-ci-cd/

Gitlab-CI (Architecture)

Gitlab Runner (Executors)

• Shell
• Docker
• Docker-Machine (auto-scaling)
• SSH
• Kubernetes
• ...

Gitlab Runner (Architecture)

myJob:
  stage: build
  image: groovy:2.5.0-beta-3-jdk8
  script:
    - groovy myScript.groovy

Gitlab-CI (Job config)

Thank you! Questions?