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Problem and Motivation

FreeBSD suffers from lack of priority getting tooling in some areas to be officially supported. CI/ CD tooling is one of them. Jenkins works for sure, but one hopes to have a choice.

Options and Expectations

2 tools were explored: Buildbot and GoCD. I was able to get Buildbot installed, but reading through documentation 2 things stood out:

Documentation is limited to the official site. I wasn't able to get much help working through some of my questions. Some Python familiarity is required (I don't). That said, GoCD isn't perfect either. Documentation is also fairly sparse, and the ecosystem is very limited. I do like how it captured run outputs for easy reference on the web.

In summary, both options aren't comparable to commercial offerings.

Server Implementation

Steps

  1. Ensure ports are latest:
portsnap fetch extract
  1. Install the latest JRE:
cd /usr/ports/java/openjdk13 && make -DBATCH install clean
  1. Create an app account it will run on:
ps useradd -n app -m
passwd app
  1. Download the latest GoCD server (https://www.gocd.org/download/#zip)
wget https://download.gocd.org/binaries/20.1.0-11114/generic/go-server-20.1.0-11114.zip
  1. Unpack the zip in the app account:
cd /home/app
unzip go-server-20.1.0-11114.zip
cd go-server-20.1.0
  1. Get more visibility on the run status: $./bin/go-server console

Worker Implementation

Steps

  1. Ensure ports are latest:
$portsnap fetch extract
  1. Install the latest JRE:
$cd /usr/ports/java/openjdk13 && make -DBATCH install clean
  1. Create an app account it will run on:
$ps useradd -n app -m
$passwd app
  1. Download the latest GoCD server (https://www.gocd.org/download/#zip)
$wget https://download.gocd.org/binaries/20.1.0-11114/generic/go-agent-20.1.0-11114.zip
  1. Unpack the zip in the app account:
$cd /home/app
$unzip go-agent-20.1.0-11114.zip
$cd go-agent-20.1.0
  1. Register server in agent config
$ee wrapper-config/wrapper-properties.conf

# edit line below
wrapper.app.parameter.101=https://<server ip>:8154/go
  1. Get more visibility on the run status: $./bin/go-agent console

References