Slide 1
Slide 1 text
DevOps at GNOME
With Flatpak and GitLab
Carlos Soriano Sanchez
GNOME developer at Red Hat
Slide 2
Slide 2 text
Overview
· Flatpak & GitLab
● Building a GNOME app old style ● Project planning
● Stability & buildability ● Design QA User
● Reproducibility ● Feedback cycle
● GitLab basics ● Flatpak basics
● GitLab CI
· Welcome To Hell
· DevOps
● CI + Flatpak ● Bundles & continuous delivery
● Flatpak & reliability ● Full new cycle
Slide 3
Slide 3 text
Welcome To Hell - Building GNOME
Slide 4
Slide 4 text
WTH - Buildability & stability
Go d k
Slide 5
Slide 5 text
WTH - Reproducibility
Different environments for
Developers
Designers
QA
Users
Slide 6
Slide 6 text
WTH - Project Planning
Slide 7
Slide 7 text
WTH - Design QA User
Ideally
Mockups & iteration
Try out WIP’s in real life
Difference between versions
Little/Non technical
Slide 8
Slide 8 text
No content
Slide 9
Slide 9 text
WTH - Feedback Cycle
Everyone follows the developer path
Ideally though
Early feedback
One click
All visual
Optimized path per each type of person
Slide 10
Slide 10 text
Overview
· Flatpak & GitLab
● Building a GNOME app old style ● Project planning
● Stability & buildability ● Design QA User
● Reproducibility ● Feedback cycle
● GitLab basics ● Flatpak basics
● GitLab CI
· Welcome To Hell
· DevOps
● CI + Flatpak ● Bundles & continuous delivery
● Flatpak & reliability ● Full new cycle
Slide 11
Slide 11 text
GitLab basics
From scratch for DevOps
All integrated:
Idea -> Design -> Implementation -> CI -> QA -> CD
Support for non technical teams
Slide 12
Slide 12 text
GitLab basics
Slide 13
Slide 13 text
GitLab basics
Slide 14
Slide 14 text
GitLab CI
Similar to Travis
Pipelines, stages, artifacts, deployments…
Schedules
Slide 15
Slide 15 text
GitLab CI
Slide 16
Slide 16 text
Flatpak - Basics
Slide 17
Slide 17 text
Flatpak - Basics
Container technologies
Sandboxed
Not dependent on host
Same environment
Versioned (Sdk, Runtime, etc.)
Slide 18
Slide 18 text
Flatpak - Basics
Slide 19
Slide 19 text
Flatpak - Basics
Slide 20
Slide 20 text
Overview
· Flatpak & GitLab
● Building a GNOME app old style ● Project planning
● Stability & buildability ● Design QA User
● Reproducibility ● Feedback cycle
● GitLab basics ● Flatpak basics
● GitLab CI
· Welcome To Hell
· DevOps
● CI + Flatpak ● Full new cycle
● Bundles & continuous delivery
Slide 21
Slide 21 text
DevOps - CI + Flatpak
DEMO TIME
Slide 22
Slide 22 text
DevOps - CI + Flatpak
Pre-merge CI ✓
Same environment across ✓
Fast - 4h to 3min ✓
Slide 23
Slide 23 text
DevOps - Bundles & CD
DEMO TIME
Slide 24
Slide 24 text
DevOps - Bundles & CD
Generated installable bundle per MR ✓
Design, QA, Users workflow ✓
Only installation required ✓
Slide 25
Slide 25 text
DevOps - Full cycle
Report or Proposal
Design
Implementation
QA & users
Iteration