GitHub-Jenkins

This is a project to bridge GitHub and Jenkins to provide support for automatically building Pull Requests in a similar fashion to Travis-CI.

License

GitHub-Jenkins is available under the terms of the 3-clause BSD license.

Work required

GitHub-Jenkins was mostly written in a weekend to solve an immediate problem. As soon as it was ready to fulfil my needs I stopped working on it to focus on other work.

It is currently in a less-than-ideal state with no tests and is slightly fragile in some areas. Configuration is not straightforward and there is no documentation. If there is interest in this project, I will try to rectify that.

Getting Started

In the absence of real documentation, here is the quick and dirty getting-started guide.

Configuration

GitHub-Jenkins is largely configured through the Django admin pages, with some small amount of initial required configuration in the github_jenkins/local_settings.py file, which is used for site-specific (private) configuration, and is not versioned in the git repository.

Site-specific settings

An example of the configuration can be found in the github_jenkins/local_sessing.example.py file. Required information is the GITHUB_APP_ID and the GITHUB_API_SECRET, which must correspond to an application registered in a GitHub account at https://github.com/settings/applications.

Application configuration

It is recommended that a new GitHub account is created for GitHub-Jenkins to authenticate for automated building and status updates. It is currently an inconvenient process to configure this user in GitHub-Jenkins.

1. Add the GitHub user to GitHub-Jenkins

   1. Using a browser in private-browsing mode, connect to the local GitHub-Jenkins instance in a web browser and log in as the GitHub-Jenkins user. This will add the user to the django database.
   2. Edit the URL to point to the following (which will configure webhooks): /github-jenkins/add_hook/<owner>/<project>/

2. Configure GitHub-Jenkins

   1. Log in to the django-admin site
   2. Add a Jenkins Job, entering the base location of Jenkins, the job name and user credentials.

   3. Add a (GitHub) Project, entering the owner (github user, e.g. sjagoe) and project name (e.g. github-jenkins). Select the corresponding GitHub authentication user and the Jenkins job to use for building.

Jenkins Job Configuration

The Jenkins Job must be a parameterized job that accepts the following parameters:

• GIT_BASE_REPO: <missing description>
• GIT_HEAD_REPO: <missing description>
• GIT_SHA1: <missing description>
• GITHUB_URL: <missing description>
• PR_NUMBER: <missing description>

The job must also use the notifications plugin, with a notification endpoint of https://example.com/github-jenkins/notification/jenkins/.

Dependencies

• django
• dango-social-auth
• pygithub
• requests