GCI Update Resource

A Concourse CI resource to check for new Google Compute Images (GCI).

Special thanks to Jeff Waugh for creating the AMI Update Resource on which this is largely based.

Source Configuration

• key: Required. JSON string containing the credentials for a service account that can query information about Google Compute Images.

• family_project: Required. GCP project which owns the image family you're tracking.

• family: Required. The image family you're tracking.

Behaviour

check: Check for new GCI in the provided family

Searches for the latest GCI that is in the provided family. The GCI name serves as the resulting version.

Parameters

None.

in: Fetch the description of a GCI

Places the following files in the destination:

• output.json: The complete GCI description object in JSON format.

• name: A plain text file containing the AMI ID, e.g. ami-5731123e

• packer.json: The AMI ID in Packer var-file input format, typically for use with packer, e.g.

  {"source_image": "debian-7-wheezy-v20150127"}

Parameters

None.

Example

This pipeline will check for a new Ubuntu 18.04 LTS GCI every hour, triggering the next step of the build plan if it finds one.

resource_types:
- name: gci
  type: docker-image
  source:
    repository: smgoller/gci-resource

resources:
- name: ubuntu-gci
  type: gci
  check_every: 1h
  source:
    key: "..."
    family_project: ubuntu-os-cloud
    family: ubuntu-1804-lts

jobs:
- name: my-gci
  plan:
  - get: ubuntu-gci
    trigger: true
  - task: build-fresh-image
    ...