Build steps for Jenkins job to deploy the dashboard

[as33ms]

The idea behind this story is to have it documented, the steps that are required to setup dashboard on any new computer (here, jenkins). Once we have them, those steps will be used to configure the Jenkins jobs.

This would contain items like:

• Installing relevant dependencies (one time activity in Jenkins)
• Cloning of relevant repositories (one time activity in Jenkins)
• Documenting all the steps required to compile / build the software
• Add documentation to README
• Running meteor with a specific settings file to deploy the changes on jenkins.apinf.com's temp folder (usually, the build folder).
• Running the tests on this temp deployment (and once successful, follow up with deployment to pre-release)

[bajiat]

@ashakunt Hi Aseem, can you tell me the status of this task?

[as33ms]

Steps were already written in jenkins jobs but they were technical views. We should have them added to README, which was not done.

I was able to run two separate instances of meteor at differnet ports on my machine. So, it matches the proof of concept about running multiple builds together.

[as33ms]

The task now mainly depends on "writing unit tests" or "functional tests" and once that is done, running tests on temp deployment would be completed.

[bajiat]

Thanks for the update!
We will add testing to the automation process once we have clarity on how to test. In order to move forward, separate deployment from testing for the time being.

[bajiat]

@ashakuntal Are you still interested on working on this task in Sprint 8? If yes, is 1 your current estimate for remaining effort?

[as33ms]

@baijat, I was going through the steps required to document in README and I see them already documented here: https://github.com/brylie/meteor-api-umbrella#installation; hence, this task can now be closed.

[as33ms]

I will move this to closed now. For running tests, we should probably handle that in another task (and when we have them). Please move this to ready / backlog if you disagree.