There are many ways that lead to the goal in IT world. You have to choose the right for your purposes.
In previous post I showed you the most common way to integrate any git repository with Jenkins – I mean SCM Polling. This time I’ll show you an another (GitLab specific) method that opens the door to do Jenkins and GitLab advanced integration such: team collaboration, pull requests, separate branch builting/testing and notifications.
High-level process overview
The previous process looks like below:
Developer performs push to GitLab repository <= Jenkins scans the target repository for chenges every 2 minutes => If change was detected, jenkins builds the project.
This time the process is a little different:
Developer performs push to GitLab repository => GitLab sends a notification to Jenkins => Jenkins builds the project.
With this approach you can integrate Jenkins and GitLab much more, or for different purposes.
Requirements
Preparation
- Create a new GitLab project and perform initial commit: J04-gitlab-integration
- Create a freestyle Jenkins project: J04-basic-build and integrate it with GitLab.
- Add the Simple build step and the Simple test step to the J04-basic-build job.
After previous steps you should have GitLab and Jenkins projects configured as below:
![J04-basic-build Config [Jenkins]](https://better-coding.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/J04-basic-build-Config-Jenkins.png)
Test your job
Building master branch
Clone the J04-gitlab-integration repository and make some change.
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git config --global user.name "Tutorial Owner" git config --global user.email "totorial@better-coding.com" git clone http://ubuntu-tutorial:9093/better-coding-tutorials/J04-gitlab-integration.git cd J04-gitlab-integration echo "Test" >> README.md git add README.md git commit -m "GitLab Jenkins integration test" git push origin master |
Open jenkins console. Push to remote repository should trigger a new job instance, but it was failed because “No such file or directory” error.
It’s ok – let’s fix it now by adding some text file with even number of words:
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echo "some words" > file01.txt git add file01.txt git commit -m "GitLab Jenkins integration test - add file01.txt" git push origin master |
Both steps (build and test) should be successfully completed:
Building custom branch
Previous solution works albo with branches.
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git checkout -b test-branch echo "second file" > file02.txt git add file02.txt git commit -m "Add second file to not-master branch" git push origin test-branch |
As you can see the build started and test-branch was checked out.
What’s next
In the next part I will show you how to integrate Jenkins and GitLab to work with branches (better way) and pull requests.
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