Docker & GitLab as a Continuous Integration platform. In this talk we describe how we use gitlab and docker as a platform to implement Continuous Integration in a simple and effective weay.
2. GPad
Born to be a developer with an interest in “system admin”
I develop using many languages like C++, C#, js and ruby. I have recently fallen in love
with functional programming, especially with elixir, erlang, clojure and haskell.
CTO & founder of coders51
3. We develop web and mobile solutions for the entire galaxy
We don’t develop web sites
At least not simple ones ...
Every time there is something new and interesting, we want to be there!!
5. Continuous Integration
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_integration:
Continuous integration (CI) is the practice, in software engineering, of merging all
developer working copies to a shared mainline several times a day. It was first
named and proposed by Grady Booch in his 1991 method, although Booch did not
advocate integrating several times a day. It was adopted as part of extreme
programming (XP), which did advocate integrating more than once per day,
perhaps as many as tens of times per day.
7. Install Install Install
Each software should be installed on a CI computer
Each software with its own dependencies
Each software has different dependencies
Each software has different dependencies with different versions
This is a mess ...
9. It works on my computer ...
One test fails on the CI computer, but not on the developer’s computer
The CI environment is different from the production environment
The CI environment is different from the development environment
10. Who cleans up this mess ?!?
After running the tests we have some dirty data
Dirty data in the database
Dirty data in the file system
Some dirty states on the external services
16. Why Docker?!?
If we use Docker:
- We can create an isolated environment
- It’s not necessary to clean data after the tests
- It’s “simple” to put together all the necessary external services
- It’s easy to replicate on different computers
17. Install becomes Declare
It’s not necessary to install all software on the CI computer
We can “declare” external dependencies
In .gitlab-ci.yml we can declare everything regarding the software under test:
- which images we require
- which services we depend on
- which scripts we want to execute
27. Auto-cleaning system ...
The images are stored in cache on the CI server
At every restart the state of the container is known
It’s simple to avoid a corrupted situation
If the test fails we don’t have any “garbage data” left over
31. Easily replicable ...
Run mongo:
sudo docker run --name mongo-dockerops -d mongo
Run node:
sudo docker run -it --link mongo-dockerops:mongo -v
`pwd`:/opt/app node:0.12 /bin/bash
root@9b71e87dfd1c:/# grunt test
32. Pros & Cons
PROS
No need to install all software on the
CI computer
The environment is always clean at
every restart
The CI environment can be replicated
on every computer
CONS
It’s slow when there are a lot of
dependencies to download
We need to manage new technologies
(Docker)