The today’s afternoon was highly occupied by Jenkins, Docker and Asciidoctor. I never used any of them before but I have a local server „left over“, so I tried to build up an automatic builder and deployer.
Continuous deployment as a hype… Hyper, hyper.
So… What was done?
- Fighting against Docker and understanding how Jenkins can be installed…
- Fighting again against Docker to figure out how Asciidoctor can be ‚injected‘ into the docker. Ok… using ‚docker exec‘ is not the correct way. I should have created my own Dockerfile… But where is the application data stored? Is it resetted whenever I create a new docker file?
- Now, everything is running up and the fights against Asciidoctor began
- By the way: The SCP plugin for Jenkins is also a mess.
There is a mess on several levels:
- SCP plugin does not like default crypto of the sshd server… Now, I did some changes… but Security on a public server… I should know, what I have introduced in sshdconfig. Probably, I will get rid of the SCP plugin and use the scp being delivered with the Docker Container. When I learn how I get the Jenkins user account aware of my SSH keys.
- Asciidoctor is a mess regarding relative directories. Now I put everything into two folder… The .adoc files and the images… Flat as flat…
- SCP plugin is again a mess since it is not capable to copy with hierarchy, but a relative hierarchy to the target file
So… What is achieved:
- Docker runs
- Jenkin runs
- Whenever I publish to ‚develop‚ on Github, the website is updated… Yeahaa…
- Ok… not really… Jenkins pulls every 10 minutes whether a new update on Github was done. I did not manage to figure out how a push notification from Github to my local server in my house is done… Probably also not possible since the server is not reachable from the outside (at least I hope so).
Yeahaa… I’m happy. Time to get some cheese.
Finished: SUCCESS