Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment system

Zuul is the service in charge of running tests and managing projects’s pipeline such as gate and post deployment:

  • Jobs are written in ansible and stored in repository
  • Secrets management system to manage deployment/publishing key
  • Simple multi-node jobs description

The service is pre-configured with five pipelines:

  • A check pipeline, used for preliminary tests on upcoming changes
  • A gate pipeline, used to make sure an approved change can be merged
  • A post pipeline, executing jobs right after a change has been merged
  • A pre-release pipeline, executing jobs after a tag including ‘alpha|beta|rc’ has been pushed on a repository
  • A release pipeline, executing jobs after a tag has been pushed on a repository
  • A periodic pipeline, building jobs at a regular interval, usually daily

When deployed locally, the service is configured with a few roles:

  • prepare-workspace: copy project with under review change
  • emit-ara-report: generate html logs of ansible play
  • validate-host: verify and log information about build host
  • upload-logs: upload job logs to a static webserver
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