CapsuleCD

CapsuleCD is a generic Continuous Delivery pipeline for versioned artifacts and libraries written in any language. It's goal is to bring automation to the packaging and deployment stage of your library release cycle. CapsuleCD is incredibly flexible, and works best when implemented side-by-side with a CI pipeline.

A short list of the features...

• Supports libraries written in any language. Has built-in support for
  • Chef Cookbooks
  • Python Pip
  • NodeJS Npm Packages
  • Ruby Gems
  • Vanilla Javascript Bower/Npm Packages
• Highly configurable
• Follows language/library best practices. Including things like:
  • automatically bumping the semvar version number
  • regenerating any *.lock files/ shrinkwrap files with new version
  • creating any recommended files (eg. .gitignore)
  • validates all dependencies exist (by vendoring locally)
  • running unit tests
  • source minification
  • linting library syntax
  • generating code coverage reports
  • updating changelog
  • uploading versioned artifact to community hosting service (rubygems/supermarket/pypi/etc)
  • creating a new git tag
  • pushing changes back to source control (github)
  • creating a new release in source control (github) and attaching any common artifacts

Links

• Source: http://github.com/AnalogJ/capsulecd
• Bugs: http://github.com/AnalogJ/capsulecd/issues

Introduction

What is CapsuleCD

CapsuleCD is a generic Continuous Delivery pipeline for versioned artifacts and libraries written in any language. It's goal is to bring automation to the packaging and deployment stage of your library release cycle. It automates away all the common steps required when creating a new version of your library.

Why use CapsuleCD

At first glance, it seems simple to publish a new library version. Just bump the version number and publish, right? Well, not always:

• If you're library includes a Gemfile.lock, Berksfile.lock or other common lock files, you'll need to regenerate them as the old version number is embedded inside.
• Everyone runs their library unit tests before creating a new release (right?!), but what about validating that your library dependencies exist (maybe in your Company's private repo)?
• How about linting your source, to ensure that it follows common/team conventions?
• Who owns the gem? Is there one developer who has the credentials to push to RubyGems.org? Are they still on your team/on vacation?
• Did you remember to tag your source when the new version was created (making it easy to determine what's changed between versions?)
• Did you update your changelog?

CapsuleCD handles all of that (and more!) for you. It pretty much guarantees that your library will have proper and consistent releases every time. CapsuleCD is well structured and fully tested, unlike the release scripts you've manually cobbled together for each library and language. It can be customized as needed without rewriting from scratch. The best part is that CapsuleCD uses CapsuleCD to automate its releases. We dogfood it so we're the first ones to find any issues with a new release.

How do I start?

You can use CapsuleCD to automate creating a new release from a pull request or from the latest code on your default branch.

Automated pull request processing:

Here's how to use docker to merge a pull request to your Ruby library

CAPSULE_SOURCE_GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN=123456789ABCDEF \
CAPSULE_RUNNER_REPO_FULL_NAME=AnalogJ/gem_analogj_test \
CAPSULE_RUNNER_PULL_REQUEST=4 \
CAPSULE_RUBYGEMS_API_KEY=ASDF12345F \
docker run AnalogJ/capsulecd:ruby capsulecd start --source github --package_type ruby

Or you could install and call CapsuleCD directly to merge a pull request to your Python library:

gem install capsulecd
CAPSULE_SOURCE_GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN=123456789ABCDEF \
CAPSULE_RUNNER_REPO_FULL_NAME=AnalogJ/pip_analogj_test \
CAPSULE_RUNNER_PULL_REQUEST=2 \
CAPSULE_PYPI_USERNAME=AnalogJ \
CAPSULE_PYPI_PASSWORD=mysupersecurepassword \
capsulecd start --source github --package_type python

Creating a branch release

TODO: add documentation on how to create a release from the master branch without a pull request. Specify the env variables required. 

Engine

Every package type is mapped to an engine class which inherits from a BaseEngine class, ie PythonEngine, NodeEngine, RubyEngine etc. Every source type is mapped to a source module, ie GithubSource. When CapsuleCD starts, it initializes the specified Engine, and loads the correct Source module. Then it begins processing your source code step by step.

Step	Description
source_configure	This will initialize the source client, ensuring that we can authenticate with the git server
runner_retrieve_payload	If a Pull Request # is specified, the payload is retrieved from Source api, otherwise the repo default branch HEAD info is retrived.
source_process_pull_request_payload or source_process_push_payload	Depending on the retrieve_payload step, the merged pull request is cloned, or the default branch is cloned locally
build_step	Code is built, which includes adding any missing files/default structure, compilation, version bumping, etc.
test_step	Download package dependencies, run the package test runner(s) (eg. npm test, rake test, kitchen test, tox)
package_step	Commit any local changes and create a git tag. Nothing should be pushed to remote repository
release_step	Push the release to the package repository (ie. npm, chef supermarket, rubygems)
source_release	Push the merged, tested and version updated code up to the source code repository. Also do any source specific releases (github release, asset uploading, etc)

Configuration

Specifying your GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN and PYPI_PASSWORD via an environmental variable might make sense, but do you really want to specify the PYPI_USERNAME, REPO_FULL_NAME each time? Probably not.

CapsuleCD has you covered. We support a global YAML configuration file (that can be specified using the --config-file flag), and a repo specific YAML configuration file stored as capsule.yml inside the repo itself.

Setting Inheritance/Overrides

CapsuleCD settings are determined by loading configuration in the following order (where the last value specified is used)

• system YAML config file (--config-file)
• repo YAML config file (capsule.yml)
• environmental variables (setting in capital letters and prefixed with CAPSULE_)

Configuration Settings

Setting	System Config	Repo Config	Notes
package_type	No	No	Must be set by --package-type flag
source	No	No	Must be set by --source flag
runner	No	No	Must be set by --runner flag
dry_run	No	No	Must be set by --[no]-dry-run flag
source_git_parent_path	Yes	No	Specifies the location where the git repo will be cloned, defaults to tmp directory
source_github_api_endpoint	Yes	No	Specifies the Github api endpoint to use (for use with Enterprise Github)
source_github_web_endpoint	Yes	No	Specifies the Github web endpoint to use (for use with Enterprise Github)
source_github_access_token	Yes	No	Specifies the access token to use when cloning from and committing to Github
runner_pull_request	Yes	No	Specifies the repo pull request number to clone from Github
runner_repo_full_name	Yes	No	Specifies the repo name to clone from Github
chef_supermarket_username	Yes	Yes	Specifies the Chef Supermarket username to use when creating public release for Chef cookbook
chef_supermarket_key	Yes	Yes	Specifies the Base64 encoded Chef Supermarket private key to use when creating public release for Chef cookbook
chef_supermarket_type	Yes	Yes	Specifies the Chef Supermarket cookbook type to use when creating public release for Chef cookbook
npm_auth_token	Yes	Yes	Specifies the NPM auth to use when creating public release for NPM package
pypi_username	Yes	Yes	Specifies the PYPI username to use when creating public release for Pypi package
pypi_password	Yes	Yes	Specifies the PYPI password to use when creating public release for Pypi package
engine_disable_test	Yes	Yes	Disables test_step before releasing package
engine_disable_minification	Yes	Yes	Disables source minification (if applicable) before releasing package
engine_disable_lint	Yes	Yes	Disables source linting before releasing package
engine_cmd_test	Yes	Yes	Specifies the test command to before releasing package
engine_cmd_minification	Yes	Yes	Specifies the minification command to before releasing package
engine_cmd_lint	Yes	Yes	Specifies the lint command to before releasing package
engine_version_bump_type	Yes	Yes	Specifies the Semvar segment (major, minor, patch) to bump before releasing package
engine_disable_cleanup	Yes	Yes	Specifies if the engine should cleanup the working directory on exit

TODO: specify the missing `BRANCH` release style settings.

As mentioned above, all settings can be specified via Environmental variable. All you need to do is convert the setting to uppercase and then prefix it with CAPSULE_. So pypi_password can be set with CAPSULE_PYPI_PASSWORD and engine_cmd_test with CAPSULE_ENGINE_CMD_TEST

Example System Configuration File

Here's what an example system configuration file might look like:

source_git_parent_path: /srv/myclonefolder
source_github_api_endpoint: https://git.mycorpsubnet.example.com/v2
source_github_web_endpoint: https://git.mycorpsubnet.example.com/v2

Step pre/post hooks and overrides

CapsuleCD is completely customizable, to the extent that you can run your own Ruby code as pre and post hooks before every step. If that's not enough, you can also completely override the step itself, allowing you to use your own business logic. To add a pre/post hook or override a step, just modify your config yml file by adding the step you want to modify, and specify pre, post or override as a subkey. Then specify your multiline ruby script:

---
  source_configure:
    pre: |
      # this is my multiline ruby script
      # the pre hook script runs before the actual step (source_configure) executes
      # we have access to any of the specified instance variables here.
      # check the documentation for more information.
      puts "override pre_source_configure" 
      `git clone ...`
    override: |
      # override scripts can be used to completely replace the built-in step script.
      # to ensure that you are compatible with the capsulecd runner, please ensure that you
      # populate all the correct instance variables.
      # see the documentation for more information
      puts "override source_configure"
    post: |
      # post scripts run after the step (source_configure) executes
      # you can override any instance variables here, do additional cleanup or anything else you want.
      puts "override post_source_configure"
  build_step:
    post: |
      # post build step runs after the build_step runs
      # within the script you have access to all instance variables and other methods defined in the engine.
      puts "override post_build_step" + @source_git_local_path

Testing

Test suite and continuous integration

CapsuleCD provides an extensive test-suite based on rspec and a full integration suite which uses VCR. You can run the unit tests with rake test. The integration tests can be run by rake 'spec:<package_type>'. So to run the Python integration tests you would call rake 'spec:python'.

CircleCI is used for continuous integration testing: https://circleci.com/gh/AnalogJ/capsulecd

Contributing

If you'd like to help improve CapsuleCD, clone the project with Git by running:

$ git clone git://github.com/AnalogJ/capsulecd

Work your magic and then submit a pull request. We love pull requests!

If you find the documentation lacking, help us out and update this README.md. If you don't have the time to work on CapsuleCD, but found something we should know about, please submit an issue.

To-do List

We're actively looking for pull requests in the following areas:

• CapsuleCD Engines for other languages
  • C#
  • Objective C
  • Dash
  • Go
  • Java
  • Lua
  • Rust
  • Scala
  • Swift
  • Any others you can think of
• CapsuleCD Sources
  • GitLab
  • Bitbucket
  • Beanstalk
  • Kiln
  • Any others you can think of

Versioning

We use SemVer for versioning. For the versions available, see the tags on this repository.

Authors

Jason Kulatunga - Initial Development - @AnalogJ

License

CapsuleCD is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details