If you have a scenario where different people are working on different branches, and they depend on each branch as a series, each build from one branch will needed to be pushed to the next branch like a pipeline. Say … Continue reading Auto merge Git branches upon Build
In my early posts I have described how to use Jenkins to build a sample project. This time lets inspect how to build an app server project with Maven and push the builds to the Subversion(SVN). Configure Maven in Jenkins … Continue reading Upload Builds to SVN using Jenkins
Jenkins has a lot more tools than you can imagine to get the work done. Today we’ll use some of those tools to create a full build pipeline to generate notifications for creating a new AMI instance in aws, triggered … Continue reading Jenkins Build Pipeline project
Why Vagrant If you are an operations engineer or DevOps engineer, Vagrant gives you a disposable environment and consistent workflow for developing and testing infrastructure management scripts. You can quickly test things like shell scripts, Chef cookbooks, Puppet modules, and … Continue reading Easy virtualization with Vagrant
Test File Structure With Rakefile generated by serverspec-init, test files must be placed under the directory which name matches the target host name like this. (You can customize this structure by editing Rakefile and spec_helper.rb as you like.) spec/target.example.jp/http_spec.rb Test … Continue reading How to write Serverspec Checks
What is Serverspec Serverspec can test and check your servers on Rspec test cases to ensure certain configurations are present and any packages are existing in a server a remote host. It test server’s state by executing ruby … Continue reading What can you do with Serverspec
Steps broken down Variables You can define user variables or env variables in this section. Specially aws credentials like Access ID and Secerete key can be set as env variables and passed to packer as follows. “variables”: { “aws_access_key”: “{{env … Continue reading Baking amzon AMI instance using Packer
What is Packer Packer is an open source tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration. Packer is lightweight, runs on every major operating system, and is highly performant, creating machine images for … Continue reading Packer for ultimate instance backing
Packer plugin is easy to be configured on Jenkins to automate packer scripts in post build actions. Set up an empty project Do the configurations in each sections as follows General Source Code Management Build triggers Put SCM Polling for … Continue reading Jenkins-Packer builder Configurations
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