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<p>Hi Gerhard,<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 07/01/2019 12:00, Gerhard Lazu
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<div dir="ltr">Hi Sam,
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<div>What determines that a build can go from your development
environment into staging? </div>
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Good question, the answer is:<br>
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1) that all the unit, integration and acceptance tests pass<br>
2) that there are no merge conflicts<br>
3) that the manual sanity checks on develop are coming back okay<br>
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<div>And from staging into production? If you can capture this
in code, you can put it into a pipeline.<br>
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I don't think there's any way we can remove the manual sanity checks
as the acceptance tests are just not that reliable, and although
we've poured 1000's of hours into them and ultimately I can't see
any way of making them perfect.<br>
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I didn't think the presence of a manual step would prevent us using
a pipeline, in as much as I thought of a pipeline as just being a
series of servers with matching branches and code is them moved
along them whether manually or automatically. Heroku calls such
things pipelines and seems to have no support for automatically
moving code along them, it's purely manual from what I can see.<br>
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<div>Why do you have 3 pipelines? </div>
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<p>I don't think we do. As I understand it, we have one pipeline:</p>
<p>develop branch + develop server ---> staging branch + staging
server ---> master branch + production server</p>
<p>That's three paired branches/servers in one pipeline. Here's a
screenshot of how Heroku presents our pipeline in their pipeline
interface. Note the button "Promote to staging" which allows you
to manually move the code on the develop server to the staging
server, but doesn't actually do a rebase of the code from develop
branch to staging:<br>
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width="790" height="157"></p>
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<div>Based on the questions that you're asking, I believe that
it would help if you had a single pipeline. </div>
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I agree - I think we do, but perhaps I'm wrong ...<br>
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<div>The question that I would focus on is <i>What would it
take to have a single pipeline that has an end-goal of
creating production builds</i>? Here is a pipeline example
which stops after it publishes a Docker image: <a
href="https://circleci.com/workflow-run/065467ef-87c0-4f5e-a2ab-5e11be12403f"
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Ooh, thanks for sharing! I had to log in to CircleCI to see that:<br>
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but that looks really interesting.<br>
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<div> If you are using something like Docker Swarm or
Kubernetes, the platform/ecosystem has all the necessary
tools to keep deployment concerns self-contained. In the <a
href="http://changelog.com" moz-do-not-send="true">changelog.com</a>
case, the Docker stack that captures the entire deployment
has <a
href="https://github.com/thechangelog/changelog.com/blob/cf2ebe0de0f35c96bf664b8bc9183bd1f3468565/docker/changelog.stack.yml#L15-L31"
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responsible for app updates</a>. In this specific case, if
the new app version starts and is healthy for 30 seconds, it
gets automatically promoted to live. <a
href="http://changelog.com/podcast/254"
moz-do-not-send="true">We have been using a similar
approach since October 2016</a>, a Docker stack just makes
it easier.</div>
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<div>I want to spur your imagination by sharing <a
href="https://ci.rabbitmq.com/teams/main/pipelines/server-release:v3.7.x"
moz-do-not-send="true">the pipeline that is responsible
for RabbitMQ v3.7.x</a>. This pipeline captures what is
possible if imagination is set free:</div>
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Wow, that RabbitMQ pipeline looks amazing - and I've only captured
part of it in the screenshot:<br>
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<div>* tests & builds 30+ apps...</div>
<div>* on all supported major runtime version...</div>
<div>* and all supported OSes</div>
<div>* tests upgrades</div>
<div>* tests client support</div>
<div>* releases alphas, betas, RCs & GAs</div>
<div>* and publishes to all supported distribution channels</div>
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<div>I hope this helps, Gerhard.</div>
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<p>That's extremely helpful - thankyou!</p>
<p>But so just to be clear, there is something in these pipelines
that you're sharing that regularly moves code from one branch to
another? And that's something that CircleCI and RabbitMQ
provide? Or these are pipelines where the same code in the same
branch is being moved through a series of servers, based on tests
and checks passing at each server?</p>
<p>Many thanks in advance<br>
Best, Sam<br>
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