ci

Continuous Integration

Example projects

• https://github.com/Microsoft/perfview
  • Appveyor config: https://github.com/Microsoft/perfview/blob/master/appveyor.yml
  • Codecov config: https://github.com/Microsoft/perfview/blob/master/.codecov.yml

Code Coverage

• Generate Code Coverage Reports with ReportGenerator in Azure DevOps: https://ardalis.com/generate-code-coverage-reports-with-reportgenerator-in-azure-devops
• ReportGenerator
  • https://github.com/danielpalme/ReportGenerator
  • Supported by cake: https://cakebuild.net/dsl/reportgenerator/
  • History: https://github.com/danielpalme/ReportGenerator/wiki/Custom-history-storage

CI/CD

• Concourse: https://concourse-ci.org/
  • Installation Tricks; in the yaml:
    • set privileged to false (privileged s not supported when Docker is in Windows mode)
    • Per https://github.com/concourse/concourse/issues/3758, append CONCOURSE_WORKER_TSA_WORKER_PRIVATE_KEY: a at the end of the file
  • Tuto: http://concoursetutorial.com/
• Gocd: https://www.gocd.org/

Azure DevOps

• Everything as Code with Azure DevOps Pipelines
  • Part #1: https://jeremylindsayni.wordpress.com/2019/06/10/everything-as-code-with-azure-devops-pipelines-c-arm-and-yaml-part-1/
  • Part #2: https://jeremylindsayni.wordpress.com/2019/06/10/everything-as-code-with-azure-devops-pipelines-c-arm-and-yaml-part-2-multi-stage-builds-in-yaml/

Gitlab + Windows

• Install Runner on Windows: https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/install/windows.html
• Runner Doc: https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/
• En français : https://guillaumebriday.fr/installer-et-utiliser-les-gitlab-runners
• On Windows: https://medium.com/@khandelwal12nidhi/setting-up-gitlab-runner-on-windows-d3c46b855ec9
• Issue (Document current best practice for shared Windows GitLab CI runners): https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/issues/3379
  • Associated Merge Request: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/merge_requests/706
  • Linked issue (Windows Container Executor): https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/issues/2609
  • Interesting links:
    • Windows packer pipelines: https://github.com/StefanScherer/packer-windows
    • Example Dockerfile for running gitlab-runner in a Windows container: https://github.com/patsissons/docker-gitlab-runner-windows
    • Microsoft's VSTS Hosted Pool packer templates https://github.com/Microsoft/vsts-image-generation
    • NB: this uses packer from Hachicorp (creators of Vagrant) to automate building the VM images See vm