cigale

cigale generates XML configuration that Jenkins can grok, from a bunch of human-readable, diff-friendly, YAML files.

Key points:

• The source code should be human-readable
• Macros are just a YAML subtree that can be instanciated with parameters of any types (scalars, sequences, etc.)

cigale is used in production at itch.io, and our job definitionso are a good comprehensive tour of:

• https://github.com/itchio/ci.itch.ovh

Installation

Run:

gem install cigale

Usage

The test command generates XML files for you to inspect

cigale test spec/fixtures/parity/builders/fixtures/ant001.yaml -o tmp

This would create the ./tmp directory and generate XML files in there.

You can also specify a whole directory, in which case, cigale will parse the whole directory recursively and generate all job definition it finds:

cigale test ci/jobs -o tmp

To upload your job configuration to a running Jenkins instance

What can I use?

You can browse the spec/fixtures/ directory to see what's possible.

Another good reference sources is the Jenkins Job Builder documentation, which cigale usually supports a superset of (at least in the categories listed in spec/parity_spec.rb)

Macros

Define a macro with a top-level element starting with :

- :git-advanced:
    git:
      url: 'git@{host}:{user}/{name}.git'
      credentials-id: 'some-credentials'
      branches:
        - '{branches}'

N.B: Always use quotes when using variable substitution, e.g. '{a}', otherwise it'll be interpreted as a YAML object.

Use a macro by having a subtree be an object whose only key is a dot followed by the macro's name:

- job:
    name: cigale
    scm:
      - .git:
          host: github.com
          user: itchio
          name: cigale
          branches: **

The following will expand to:

- job:
    name: cigale
    scm:
      - git:
          url: 'git@github.com:itchio/cigale.git'
          credentials-id: 'some-credentials'
          branches:
            - '**'

If you're unsure what something will expand to, you can use the dump command:

cigale dump my-def.yml -o tmp

Splats

Sometimes you want to do this:

- :cool-wrappers:
    - ansi-color
    - inject

- job:
    name: foobar
    wrappers:
      - .cool-wrappers:
      - xvfb

But that will expand to:

- job:
    name: foobar
    wrappers:
      - - ansi-color
        - inject
      - xvfb

Which isn't valid. What you want instead is use a splat when calling cool-wrappers (see issue #2)

- job:
    name: foobar
    wrappers:
      - ..cool-wrappers:
      - xvfb

Which will expand to the expected result:

- job:
    name: foobar
    wrappers:
      - ansi-color
      - inject
      - xvfb

Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/itchio/cigale/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request

License

cigale is released under the MIT License.

Read the LICENSE.txt file in this repository for more informations.