Or am I just using GoCD wrong? I know there's the concept of environments. Maybe we should have one GoCD server with an environment for each team instead of a GoCD servers for a team.
On Sat, May 8, 2021, 10:44 PM HUSSEIN KADIRI <[email protected]> wrote: > ok got it. This approach works if you're managing a few goCD servers but > it doesn't really scale if you have to manage a lot of GoCD servers. We > have a setup where each team has their own CI system. It would be quite > painful managing each system this way. Also we aim to have one touch push > button deployments. Having to interact with the UI to set things up won't > quite work there. > > On Sat, May 8, 2021, 10:37 PM Marques Lee <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Certainly possible that I misinterpreted your question. If it was more >> about “how do I get started to configure GoCD and learn to how make changes >> thereafter” I’d just start with the vanilla settings that the UI creates. >> There’s an option in the admin menu to view the current effective config >> xml and even edit it right there (validating any changes before saving). >> Making bulk changes in the UI is inefficient so sometimes we configure >> something once, open the config xml view/edit page, copy the xml our >> favorite code editor (eg, sublime, vscode) and use the editor’s advance >> text manipulation facilities to replicate config blocks to however many we >> need and then paste it back into config xml GoCD page to validate/save. >> >> On Sat, May 8, 2021 at 10:25 PM Marques Lee <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hmm, well you could always keep your cruise config in source control of >>> course, just like you might do with any other service config. >>> >>> However, what we do internally for build.gocd.org is to utilize the >>> backup feature of GoCD — it’s not just the server config that you’ll want >>> to track, but also your data in the database that keeps track of pipeline >>> history and such. The backup feature will save all of that for you to an >>> archive. We persist them nightly to S3 IIRC. Our config folder and >>> flyweight folders, etc are all bind-mounted into the container at >>> provisioning. >>> >>> Is that the kind of info you're looking for? >>> >>> -Marques >>> >>> On Sat, May 8, 2021 at 10:07 PM HUSSEIN KADIRI <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Thanks Marques. >>>> Curious what's the best/common/recommended practice on configs around >>>> configuring from scratch and making incremental changes? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Fri, May 7, 2021, 5:40 PM Marques Lee <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I think that has been talked about for a long time (actually, in the >>>>> context of doing doing full server config as code) but hasn’t materialized >>>>> unfortunately :(. Probably won’t happen for a long time until someone gets >>>>> enough time on their hands (and maybe an external committer at that — >>>>> that’s actually how we initially gained support for pipelines as config). >>>>> >>>>> So while I’d love to tell you “yes we’re working on it” the reality is >>>>> nobody’s taken the time to truly explore it since XML does work and is >>>>> doing “good enough.” 🤷🏻♂️ >>>>> >>>>> -Marques >>>>> >>>>> On Fri, May 7, 2021 at 5:36 PM HUSSEIN KADIRI <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Yeah XML is a bummer :( Any plans of replacing it with yaml :)? >>>>>> >>>>>> On Fri, May 7, 2021, 5:33 PM Marques Lee < >>>>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> What you can do is configure things in the UI and then copy the >>>>>>> resulting XML file. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> We also document all of this configuration here: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> https://docs.gocd.org/current/configuration/configuration_reference.html >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Fri, May 7, 2021 at 5:31 PM Marques Lee < >>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Oh I see, so server config. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> You can just create the cruise-config.xml file and provision that >>>>>>>> in the server config dir. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Yes, I know it’s XML (yuck) and not something nicer, but it works. >>>>>>>> That’s where GoCD keeps its canonical configuration (the UI changes >>>>>>>> result >>>>>>>> in direct changes to this xml file) >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> -Marques >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Fri, May 7, 2021 at 5:27 PM HUSSEIN KADIRI <[email protected]> >>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> not referring to configuring pipelines. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> All the examples in the yaml plugin point to configure pipelines. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> I want to configure the GoCD server itself in preferably >>>>>>>>> yaml.format. Like configuring the elastic agent profiles. Etc. Are >>>>>>>>> there >>>>>>>>> examples of those? >>>>>>>>> . >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> On Fri, May 7, 2021, 5:20 PM Marques Lee < >>>>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Yes! We have several plugins to do pipelines as code. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Officially, we support Groovy DSL, YAML, and JSON. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> The JSON and YAML plugins are built in, but groovy needs to be >>>>>>>>>> downloaded and copied into the plugins dir. the Groovy plugin offers >>>>>>>>>> the >>>>>>>>>> most flexibility since you have a general purpose programming >>>>>>>>>> language, but >>>>>>>>>> YAML and JSON are still quite capable for most. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Docs/Source code: >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> YAML: >>>>>>>>>> https://github.com/tomzo/gocd-yaml-config-plugin >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> JSON: >>>>>>>>>> https://github.com/tomzo/gocd-json-config-plugin >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Groovy DSL: >>>>>>>>>> https://github.com/gocd-contrib/gocd-groovy-dsl-config-plugin >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> -Marques >>>>>>>>>> On Fri, May 7, 2021 at 5:14 PM HUSSEIN KADIRI <[email protected]> >>>>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> 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