Greetings fellow Jenkins users. I have just pushed v0.4 of snowglobe-plugin for jenkins, I thought this is the point at which it is possibly useful for others treading down the same path as us.
We develop software which is shipped as Docker images, which is neat. But what starts out as a simple 'docker run <image>' rather rapidly turns in to a complex nest of dependent containers (database. config. monitoring. logging. etc) - deployment, testing, demos all became somewhat harder, and a long list of "commands to run". Even the simple act of spinning up a test environment for automated UI tests to run has become somewhat problematic. After trying various different toolings, we started to roll our own as none of them quite hit the sweet spot of 'configuration' against 'flexibility'. I describe SnowGlobe as 'docker-compose on steroids', or 'terraform with added DSL goodness'. If you have met either of those tools, this is heavily influenced by them. As it ships today, You can specify a network of resources as a "SnowGlobe". When the specification changes (say a new docker image is pushed), you can 'apply' the changes and the system automatically calculates which items need to be recreated. The server itself ships as a docker image and can be controlled with the jenkins plugin (or via REST calls). We are actively using this for: - Deploying every built pull-request into a docker host so that QA can manually verify - Deploying and configuring live customer configurations We intend very soon to use it to - Continuous deployment of systems (Blue/Green deployments) into test - Continuous deployment of systems into live environments SnowGlobe is Java, and more importantly Groovy based - it should be relatively simple to extend (currently it has provisions for Docker and Consul, but we are likely to add Vault and AWS features soon). This means that the configurations can leverage the power of Java/Groovy (think Jenkinsfile). There is some in-progress documentation here: https://nirima.github.io/SnowGlobe/ and a getting-started which gives some flavour: https://nirima.github.io/SnowGlobe/docs/guide/getting_started.html I am currently adding more documentation. The server is functional, but not pretty - there are likely bugs, but it is working. There are lots of features to be added (such as: committing each change to a git repository, additional providers) and examples to be written. If this is something that interests you please get in touch - pull requests are welcome ! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CAPYP83ToDWEEVm7BXfE2LzRN4wJyG9A_5Zf5NZ8%3D9AuRa9WX5A%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
