FreeBSD CI

[kraileth]

No idea if this is going to succeed in the end (I'm not a programmer and completely new to the world of CI), but you never know if you don't give it a try, right? As mentioned on #51, I'm considering what would be needed to provide FreeBSD CI for DevolutionX.

Any help, comments or or suggestions would be very welcome. Let's see how far we'll get - the most sinister game ever made on a beast of an operating system should be an ideal combination! 😈

Here's a rough plan:

Phase 1

• Do a bit of reading on the subject of Jenkins in general
• Setup a FreeBSD VM with port-forwarding (to keep the main system clean)
• Install Jenkins and get it started
• Setup Nginx as a proxy and make Jenkins happy with the settings
• Install all required packages, create build script, test it once by hand
• Look into adding build jobs
• Configure a simple job that clones the latest code from GH and builds DevilutionX
• Document everything

Phase 2

• Start over, redoing everything in a jail
• Figure out which changes to make (if any) to make it work in a jailed environment
• Research how additional build nods work
• Create jails for all supported FreeBSD versions (each one for both tier 1 platforms), install all dependencies
• Add newly created jails as additional build nodes
• Consider security (firewall rules, permissions, jail settings, ...)
• Document everything

Phase 3

• Install fresh server
• Deploy production configuration using configuration management tools (users + keys, log rotation, monitoring, ...)
• Apply system hardening (via configuration management)
• Create all required jails, install dependencies (via configuration management)
• Setup Jenkins and Nginx proxy, add all build nodes (ideally mostly using configuration management)
• Test everything

Phase 4

• Setup dedicated server
• Deploy everything via configuration management with as little manual actions as possible
• Test again
• Invite Devilution Devs
• Bonus: Figure out how to hook the CI system into DevilutionX so that an automated build happens when changes are pushed to the Git repo (?)

[AJenbo]

That is an impressive master plan you have there :)

Did you try getting https://cirrus-ci.org/guide/FreeBSD/ up and running? It might be a lot easier.

[grepwood]

This is where the fun begins!
@AJenbo can people like @kraileth have webhooks? AFAIK this is a good way of ensuring that approved CIs get wind of the latest commits so they can react with build efforts.

[AJenbo]

Yes, if we can set it up in a secure way.

[AJenbo]

FreeBSD builds were included with the latest release:
https://github.com/diasurgical/devilutionX/releases

But without a build server, it will be up to the community to make sure that the game keeps working for the platform.

[kraileth]

Thanks a lot for all the work you are doing! I'll need to revisit this as time permits - unfortunately I haven't even been able to install a i386 system and build DevilutionX for a while... Hopefully next month.

[AJenbo]

No worries, we are still a bit off from doing a 1.0.0 release 🙂

[ThomasChr]

@kraileth Any news on this?

[ThomasChr]

@AJenbo Do we want to keep this issue open?

[AJenbo]

It's unclear how the BSD community normally handles this, and no one appears to be working on it. Lets close it.