[chef] Re: Re: [announcemnet] GoatOS:: Fully automated CI to build and test chef infrastructure

[Ranjib Dey < >]

Hi torben,

kitchen-ci dont have any native lxc based driver, i want get that addressed first. Current LXC driver uses shell-out to do its magic, which is cumbersome.

Yeah, GoCD is now opensource :-) . Thats why i am building things on top of it, instead of jenkins.

I too would love to have a SaaS offering, which give vanilla linux kernel. I dont know much about circle-ci. But i know for fact that travis uses openvz, and they dont  have any plan to move to mainline kernel anytime soon, so we wont get containers from them. When i used to work at ThoughtWorks (the company behind GoCD) we had built DevCloud, an internal SaaS for GoCD farm. Currently they have Snap CI, but i doubt its anything closer to GoCD (i.e the pipelines, fan-in, fan-out dependencies etc), but you should definitely talk to them and check if they have any plans to do it.

Im pretty sure Docker inside LXC will force you to run lxc as root :-(.

It will be awesome if someone starts something like cloudbees, but backed by GoCD, with multi-tenancy baked in :-)

Till then, I'll continue improving these tools, and their integration. i.e. reduce the entry barrier for CI-CD adoption for infrastructure as code.

cheers

ranjib

On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 1:20 AM, Torben Knerr < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Nice work Ranjib!

I'm looking into a solution that lets us fully test cookbooks using
kitchenci and LXC containers, and this looks quite promising
(especially since I found out go ci/cd is free now, right?). I would
love to see something like that being available as a SaaS offering
(like travis-ci or cirlceci).

For open source cookbooks circleci got me quite far (you can run lxc
containers inside docker containers there), but I never got it to work
with vagrant-lxc though (see [0] if anyone with some lxc background
wants to chime in)

Hats off!
Torben

[0] https://github.com/fgrehm/vagrant-lxc/issues/339

On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 6:38 AM, Ranjib Dey < "> > wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am happy to announce an opensource project GoatOS. It provides fully
> automated CI/CD setup[1], with agents capable of running unprivileged LXC
> containers. These are full blown system containers (running init, cron etc),
> unlike docker's app container (which requires process supervision, runs as
> privileged mode etc), running  as normal, nono-root user. It also uses
> blender, a modular orchestration framework to run tasks against a set of
> container or agents.
>
> Together, these technologies allows creating arbitrary artifact (like debs,
> rpms. container images) and publishing them. I have setup a full blown build
> pipeline that tests chef, builds omnibus installers, and then use it to test
> community couple of community cookbooks.
>
> I'll be more than happy to get some feedback on this. Currently the whole
> stack is tested against ubuntu 14.04 servers.
>
> regards
> ranjib
>
> [2]https://github.com/GoatOS/Spec
> [1]https://github.com/GoatOS/GoatOS
> [3]https://github.com/GoatOS/go_cd
> [4]https://github.com/GoatOS/container
> [5]https://github.com/PagerDuty/blender
>