Concourse Pipeline Splitter / Helper - of interest

[EugenMayer]

I wonder if a tutorial / hint like the pipeline editor (VS / Atom ) for ctpl could be usefull in general.

I am using https://github.com/EugenMayer/concourse-pipeline-templateer for all our production pipelines since about half a year and it helped a lot making pipelines more easy to maintain, edit and understand.

• it helps you split out resources into one singe or one by one files
• helps you split your jobs into single job files

E.g. we also split our jobs into jobs/staging/_somejob.yml and jobs/release/_somejob.yml for pipelines where we have a lot of jobs.

One example can be found here https://github.com/kw-concourse-example/concourse-app-release-lifecycle-example/tree/master/ci/pipeline

The usage is fairly simple, but also check the docs

gem install ctpl

# generate the template and deploy in one go
ctpl && fly sp -t target -c pipeline.yaml -p mypipeline

Eventhough there is no fly integration, it can just be run beforehand.

to be compatible with something like https://github.com/concourse/concourse-pipeline-resource
i usually checking the pipeline.yml into the CI repo too so the deployment works as usual.

Let me know if there is any interest, i could for sure write a first article draft or whatever is needed.