CI & Deployment System

[splitice]

We are looking to make a change in our development process. Namely moving from a manual "check the CI system" to something that is more integrated into the deployment and development process. We previously used scrutinizer-ci but it does not meet our needs in this area.

I have applied for a trial of Atlassian Bamboo, does anyone have any other recommendations? Of course the language of development is PHP and SCM git.

It should at a minimum have a hiphop vm PHP validator and phpunit test runner.

 

[shunny]

Jenkins CI is good. You can customize it to your own development flow. We used Jenkins heavily at my old company, it was pretty damn good. 

 

[Adduc]

We've been using Phing (two primary targets defined for a quick dev 'build' and a full build on commit through the CI system) along with Jenkins (only build step is running phing, post-build publish docs, analyze code coverage, etc.), and it has worked fairly well. Jenkins allows builds to be created automatically using hooks on push/commit/etc. in git (and mercurial).

I haven't gotten anything fully automated in terms of deployment yet. We prefer to run database migration scripts manually, so it's been a two step process in running database migration scripts and a git update in a production push. Still, it's pretty painless.

 

[splitice]

Thanks Adduc and shunny, Ill try Jenkins next (possibly with phing, need to read-up first). Bamboo on demand is not really meeting my needs easily yet.

I still welcome any further recommendations.

 

[wlanboy]

For CI and deployments Jenkins (hudson) owns the market right out of its own grown ecosystem.

If Jenkins is not able to do it there is a plugin for the gap.

 

[Shados]

Hydra is very cool, but probably only maximally useful if you're already drinking the Nix/NixOS cool-aid elsewhere. Which you may want to consider doing .

 

[splitice]

Hydra is very cool, but probably only maximally useful if you're already drinking the Nix/NixOS cool-aid elsewhere. Which you may want to consider doing .

"NixOS is a research project" hmm. Thanks anyway.

It looks like Jenkins is the way to go.

 

[dano]

We used hudson for awhile at a job - otherwise, haven't done too much CI with other projects, wish I could assist more.

Just remembered -- we were looking at switching to Jenkins, after fussing with some strange Hudson stuff(once I saw the site I remembered)

 

[shunny]

Jenkins is awesome with the amount of plugins and a large community around it you can find almost any plugin you want. It's easy to deploy and easy to configure.

 

[splitice]

Does anyone know of a plugin or tutorial for utilizing Facebooks HipHop VM (HHVM) for a code check?

 

[wlanboy]

Does anyone know of a plugin or tutorial for utilizing Facebooks HipHop VM (HHVM) for a code check?

I don't think you need any plugin.

HHVM is a PHP runtime so you just have to select the correct paths to run php inside of HHVM.

 

[splitice]

HHVM contains an analysis engine built on the runtime.