Help setting up DDEV in CircleCI?

[timstallmann]

Hi!

There's a brief mention in the docs of using DDEV in CircleCI to spin up a site but no sample configuration; I'd love to try this approach so I can just re-use ddev to spin up the site in test environment, but need some help!

I'm getting stuck on how to actually run ddev -- CircleCI seems to require you to run docker commands in a remote executor environment which doesn't have the same filesystem binding as a local docker instance would; so when I get to the ddev start step and ddev is spinning up containers, I get a lot of the following errors:

ERROR: for ddev-project-db Cannot create container for service db: invalid mount config for type "bind": bind source path does not exist: /home/circleci/repo/.ddev

Here's what the circleci config looks like:

version: 2
jobs:
  build:
    docker:
      - image: cimg/php:7.4-browsers

    steps:
      - checkout

      - setup_remote_docker:
          version: 20.10.6

      - run:
          name: Install ddev
          command: |
            curl -LO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/drud/ddev/master/scripts/install_ddev.sh && bash install_ddev.sh

      - run:
          name: Start server running
          command: |
            ddev start -y

Any thoughts on this? I'd be happy to post a sample working config so it can be linked in the docs once I get it working..

[rfay]

You have to use the machine executor type. See ddev's own CircleCI setup, https://github.com/ddev/ddev/tree/v1.24.10/.circleci

[timstallmann]

Thanks so much!

[crowjake]

Just for posterity, and because I keep finding this thread when looking up "CircleCI ddev" - I'm leaving a working link here, for the last tagged release which included the CircleCI directory after which it was removed meaning the above link doesn't work anymore, but this does: https://github.com/ddev/ddev/tree/v1.24.10/.circleci

[rfay]

Wow @crowjake ! Talk about fixing up an oldie :) Would you consider creating a demo repo that has demo circleci config for your usage?

[crowjake]

Will do, if I go that way... Been experimenting with both CircleCI and Tugboat: With the latter it seems easier to just to use their images for the test containers. I am still getting to grips with CircleCI though, so once I have the hang of it I'd be happy to try putting together a ddev based config.