The 'Vagrantification' of Appium Hive with Ansible

Video : http://www.bbc.co.uk/academy/technology/software-engineering/BBCDigital2015/article/art20150518161153983
This talk at BBC Digital Open Day 2015 on set up and provisioning internal mobile continuous integration system know as 'Hive CI'. Also how we used technologies such as Ansible, Vagrant and Appium, and the challenges they found in setting up this CI environment.

Transcript

1. Vagrantification of Appium Hive with Ansible Shashikant Jagtap : Senior Developer in Test BBC Digital - Radio, Music and /programmes Twitter: @Shashikant86 Personal Website: http://shashikantjagtap.net
2. Topics • BBC Hive CI & Appium • Challenges Setting Up London Hive • Vagrant • Ansible • References
3. Hive CI • Centralized device testing platform based in Salford • Calabash & Appium • Schedule tests from Web Interface or from CI server
4. Setup Requirements • Linux Machine [ Ubuntu] • WiFi without BBC Proxy • NodeJS • Ruby, RVM • Android SDK • Appium
5. Challenges London Hive CI • WiFi on Linux • Physical Machines & Distributed Teams • Installing all software packages manually on Hive e.g Android SDK, NodeJS, RVM etc etc
6. Vagrant & Ansible • Vagrant is a tool build and distribute development environments. • Ansible is tool to automate things and can be used for provisioning vagrant boxes.
7. Vagrant • WiFi from Host Machine [Mac OSX] • Hive CI can be installed on any Machine • Devices can be connected to Vagrant Box
8. Vagrant Provisioning • Options: Chef, Puppet, Shell, Ansible • Ansible is winner • More Readable and easy to configure • Predefined Roles and Playbooks supports many technology stacks.
9. Vagrantfile
10. Playbook.yml : Install Packages
11. Playbook.yml : Install Ruby
12. Playbook.yml : Install Appium
13. Vagrant Up
14. Vagrant Provision
15. Vagrant Provision
16. Vagrant SSH
17. References • Sample Code on GitHub https://github.com/Shashikant86/vagrant-ansible- appium • Blog Post http://shashikantjagtap.net/setting-up-vagrantified- android-appium-environment-provisioned-with- ansible/