Woodpecker

A few months ago, I wrote about my CI setup for my Smokeweb project, and how I had to take a few workarounds to make it work. And recently, Woodpecker release v3.16.0 fixed a couple of the issues I had. 🎉 If you recall, my main issue was that I couldn’t use Woodpecker’s Service feature. That was due to the fact that I’m using a Ceph RBD StorageClass to provide the pipeline volumes. And those are RWO by nature, meaning they can only be mounted on a single node of my k8s cluster. This, ultimately, meant that if the service for running my test Postgres instance got scheduled on a different node than all of the pipeline steps, there would be a deadlock. The steps won’t be able to start because the pipeline volume is already mounted on the node the Service is running on. ...

After implementing a lot of helpers and basic infrastructure for my Smokeweb app (see here if you’re interested in what the project is about), I finally arrived at creating the database connection. In this post, I will give an overview of the Golang test helpers I implemented for tests which need a database, show you how I implemented some scripting for a Postgres database using Podman and then I will tell you how I implemented database tests in WoodpeckerCI. ...

In my $dayjob, I’m a build engineer in the CI team of a large company. So I’m reasonably confident that this is going to be only the first post in a long series on the CI setup for my Smoking project. I like CIs and the automated testing they come with. I think it was one of the better ideas the tech industry has come up with. I’m seeing its benefit every day at work. So I also have CIs for most of my private projects. ...

Wherein I update my container image build pipeline in Woodpecker with buildah. A couple of weekends ago, I naively thought: Hey, how about stepping away from my Tinkerbell experiments for a weekend and quickly setting up a Bookwyrm instance? As such things tend to turn out, that rookie move turned into a rather deep rabbit hole, mostly on account of my container image build pipeline not really being up to snuff. The current setup Before going into details on the problem and ultimate solution, I’d like to sketch out my setup. For a detailed view, have a look at this post. ...

Wherein I migrate my Drone CI setup on Nomad to a Woodpecker CI setup on k8s. This is part 16 of my k8s migration series. Finally, another migration blog post! I’m still rather happy that I’m getting into it again. For several years now, I’ve been running a CI setup to automate a number of tasks related to some personal projects. CI stands for Continuous Integration, and Wikipedia says this about it: ...