gitlab-ci-local VS tekton-kickstarter

Among these options, the one that has gained the most traction is gitlab-ci-local :

The main reason behind this change is to have consistent scripts for local testing and remote runners during testing and debugging. However, there are already tools available, such as gitlab-ci-local, that allow you to run jobs locally, partially invalidating this argument. Additionally, working locally may not provide access to all necessary variables.

Two tools I've used for local Gitlab CI runs: - https://github.com/firecow/gitlab-ci-local - https://gitlab.com/AdrianDC/gitlabci-local

What you might want to look at is this, to meet both needs https://github.com/firecow/gitlab-ci-local

https://github.com/firecow/gitlab-ci-local exists but its not quite there yet. Personally Ive resorted to setting up a self-managed instance at home, relying on the included linter/validator and pushing repeatedly as before.

If you already have/had a working pipeline then maybe https://github.com/firecow/gitlab-ci-local has something worth looking at.

> One thing that would be nice, however, would be the ability to run the entire pipeline locally.

This cost me many hours of waiting for the Gitlab CI runner when debugging non-trivial pipelines, when the issue was something that did not have to do with the script steps inside of the jobs but rather how the Gitlab runner handled things.

I've found gitlab-ci-local [1] which actually does run the Gitlab pipeline locally, although I had to write some boilerplaye scripts to set up all the necessary 'CI_FOO_SOMETHING' environment variables before running the tool. (Which sometimes came back to bite me because the issue was actually in the content of some of those environment variables). It's still a very good tool.

[1] https://github.com/firecow/gitlab-ci-local

Most CI/CD tools let you run pipelines locally. Just one example: https://circleci.com/blog/using-runner-for-local-testing/ . In my opinion Gitlab and Circleci have the test tools for this.

# https://github.com/MartinHeinz/tekton-kickstarter/blob/master/misc/config.yaml apiVersion: v1 kind: ConfigMap metadata: name: repo-app-mapping data: repo-app-mapping.yaml: | '[email protected]:kelseyhightower/nocode.git': 'nocode' '[email protected]:MartinHeinz/blog-frontend.git': 'blog-backend' '[email protected]:MartinHeinz/game-server-operator.git': 'game-server-operator' '[email protected]:MartinHeinz/python-project-blueprint.git': 'sample-python-app' --- # https://github.com/MartinHeinz/tekton-kickstarter/blob/master/tasks/get-application-name/get-application-name.yaml apiVersion: tekton.dev/v1beta1 kind: ClusterTask metadata: name: get-application-name spec: params: - name: repository-url type: string - name: mapping-file type: string steps: - name: get-application-name image: mikefarah/yq script: | #!/usr/bin/env sh set -xe yq e '."$(params.repository-url)"' /config/$(params.mapping-file) | tr -d '\012\015' > /tekton/results/application-name results: - name: application-name # Can be accessed by other Tasks with $(tasks.get-application-name.results.application-name) workspaces: - name: config mountPath: /config

Tekton is a versatile tool that can get quite complicated and therefore one short article definitely isn't enough to go over every piece of it in detail. This introduction should give you enough to get up and running with all the configurations in place. In the following articles in these series, we will explore how to use and build your own custom Tasks and Pipelines, deal with event handling - both HTTP events and scheduled with cron and much more. So, stay tuned for next article and in the meantime you can have a sneak peek at files in tekton-kickstarter repository where all the resources from this and following articles are already available. And in case you have some feedback or suggestion feel free to open an issue in the repository or just star it if like you the content. 😉

Article: https://itnext.io/cloud-native-ci-cd-with-tekton-laying-the-foundation-a377a1b59ac0 Repository: https://github.com/MartinHeinz/tekton-kickstarter