Reason
- Current my daily tasks are:
- Develop feature
- Create a git merge request
- Create a git tag
- Go to Jenkins site and deploy to a specify env and git tag above
- Wait for Jenkins build result
- So, I think I can make the process at step 4 and 5 more automatic
Solution
- A script for deploy Jenkins from the command line
- So we no need switch to Jenkins page, now you can do everything on you IDE
- A chrome extension for notifying when build success
- Another solution is set up a webhook for Jenkins so it can send the result to Slack or Mattermost group. But I think it still makes spam for me, I just want to notify on some projects.
Preconditions
- You must have Jenkins username and API token
- API token get at Configure tab on the account info page
Script for deploy Jenkins from the command line
- It uses Jenkins API for send deploy request
- Basically, all of it is do this command
curl -v -X POST https://jenkins.com/job/admin-apibuild \
--user yourusername:yourapitoken \
--data-urlencode json='{"parameter": [{"name":"Environment", "value":"test"}, {"name":"COMMIT", "value":"dev"}]}'
- Value of
parameterdepend on the config of your Jenkins job - I wrapper above curl command to Javascript file, so you need Node to run
- We can run a command like
node scripts/deploy.js dev v1.1.1- You can custom to correct with your Jenkins config
- Source code at https://github.com/tungnt620/jenkins-auto
A chrome extension for notifying when build success
How it works
- We have a monitor server which uses for interval fetch status of jobs
- We choose jobs to want to monitor
- This monitor server also serves an API get notifies which used by chrome ext
- Chrome ext interval fetch notifies from the monitor server and displays it.
Setup
- You can see detail at https://github.com/tungnt620/jenkins-auto
The end
If you have any other ways, solutions please share with us
I think one way to boot productivity is to avoid context switch as much as possible.