Concourse: CI as Code

Concourse is a CI system that decouples your project from all the little details of testing and delivery. It offers pipelines as first-class citizens, a clean container for every build, and a beautiful UI.

CloudCredo engineers Henry and Josh walk you through turning CI into code, discuss how they avoided some "gotchas" with their deployments and demonstrate a Concourse pipeline for continuous delivery.

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1. Concourse: CI as Code Josh Hill @jamesjoshuahill Henry Stanley @henryaj
2. Every team has a process
3. We automated each step
4. Let’s automate the whole process
5. ATC TSA fly baggage claim cabin blackbox jettison autopilot hangar gate
6. How was your flight?
7. Safety takes time and effort
8. CI has broken
9. We need a first-class pipeline
10. Concourse
12. name: unit plan: - get: app trigger: true - task: unit file: app/ci/ unit.yml Job name: app type: git source: uri: git@github.com/ app.git branch: master Resource Task platform: linux image: docker:///ruby inputs: - name: app run: path: app/ci/ unit.sh
13. git stemcell s3 time job
14. job cf bosh s3 git semver tracker
15. • UI is immutable • All configuration is in YAML • fly configure • fly execute
16. • Clean containers for every build • Lightweight + BOSH deployable • Recreate a pipeline from scratch in seconds • YAML is not XML • No manual cf push
17. Demo
18. Gotchas • need to use BOSH • fussy about credential formatting • mind your credentials – use HTTPS! • under rapid development • some UI bugs
19. Would Concourse work for you?
20. Concourse: CI as Code Josh Hill @jamesjoshuahill Henry Stanley @henryaj