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+title = "getting on the CI train"
+description = "which CI solution should I use?"
+date = 2024-02-19
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+project = "thing-a-month (meta)"
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+If I’m going to be shipping apps by the end of the month, I’d better get CI set up. I’ve been looking around at different options and found:
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+- Argo Workflows. Probably a taste that goes great with Argo CD, but I’d like to source CI steps from the repos and this seems difficult.
+- Tekton: similar.
+- Woodpecker: an offshoot of Drone, looks nice, seems to do what I want, but I can’t get the Helm chart working.
+- Agola: smaller, maybe newer. Does the normal CI stuff, plus you can define your config in jsonnet. Kind of cool. I’d like to be able to pull in editable build steps though.
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+Basically I feel these options are either too complex or too simple or I can’t make them run. I bet if I redid how I’m setting up apps in Argo CD, I could get Woodpecker working. May have to shave that yak!
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+Right now the plan is to try a little longer (maybe today and Tuesday) to get Woodpecker working, and to bail and use Agola if I can't.