What's with all the test talk? (aka, give me CI already)

[Merlijn Sebrechts]

This is awesome!

>  I have a nasty habit of committing straight to master, so bear with us as development is moving fast at the moment.

If only you could have a CI system to test your bundles automatically... ;)

2016-12-08 19:36 GMT-05:00, Kevin Monroe <kevin.monroe at canonical.com>:
> Hi Juju!
>
> From Matrix [0] to Review Queue [1] to Amulet [2] to Charm Author Workflows
> [3], you'd think December was the month we all remembered the importance of
> software testing.  There are oodles of test tools for charms/bundles, and
> if you know about all of them, you're probably putting out thoughtful,
> well-tested charms (thanks stub!).
>
> One thing that we've found missing is a nice charm CI/CD system that
> leverages these tools to automatically give developers confidence in their
> code and handle the release cycle from a source repo to the charm store,
> soup to nuts.  Wouldn't it be nice if you could commit a charm update to
> github and automatically have Cloud Weather Report kick off Jenkins jobs on
> all your clouds, which in turn called Bundletester to handle deployment,
> which in turn called Amulet and Matrix to run specific tests?  Taking it a
> step further, it'd be nice if that system could automatically push
> charms/bundles to your edge channel (if their tests pass), and if you tag
> source with a release tag, build/test/release it to your stable channel.
>
> This kind of system is what the Big Software team has been working on
> recently, and we're open to feedback!  Our goal is to deliver a system (as
> a bundle) that answers the question, "how should I do CI/CD for my charms
> and bundles?"  We're also working on a variation that includes the Review
> Queue -- it will eventually become the brains behind
> https://review.jujucharms.com and will be available for anyone wanting a
> CI/CD + Source Review system in-house.
>
> If you're interested, development is happening at
> https://github.com/juju-solutions/bundle-cwr-ci.  Have a look at the readme
> for more details and let us know what you think.  The bundle yaml files are
> currently deployable, buy I have a nasty habit of committing straight to
> master, so bear with us as development is moving fast at the moment.  Watch
> this space for updates on our progress.
>
> [0] - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/juju/2016-December/008260.html
> [1] - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/juju/2016-December/008287.html
> [2] - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/juju/2016-December/008288.html
> [3] - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/juju/2016-December/008302.html
>
> Thanks!
> --
> Kevin Monroe
>