[Nix-dev] github triggered builds

[Tomasz Czyż]

https://nixos.org/hydra/

and

https://github.com/hercules-ci/hercules ( looks like still in heavy
development but maybe usable :))

2017-05-08 18:14 GMT+01:00 Harmen <harmen at lijzij.de>:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to see how I can make my build processes easier with nix. So far
> it's going pretty good and it's fun, although there was a lot of searching
> online for scattered documents.
>
> Want I want to do (as the first thing to change to nix in production) is to
> port the building of some docker images I use for testing. The idea is to
> have docker images build, tagged with their branch they come from, when
> someone
> pushes something. The building and pushing an sich work. The .nix files
> live in
> the repo, and with a `make docker` the image is build and uploaded. I'm
> very
> happy to be able to build docker images without actually having to use
> docker
> ;)
>
> So, what would be the recommended way to trigger the building process? I'm
> currently using drone.io, but that works with containers. It works with
> nix,
> when I give it the nixos/nix docker image, but building a node project
> takes
> about 5 minutes, and drags in way too much from cache.nixos.org. I tried
> to
> have it make a local nix binary-cache, but there are some problems there,
> but
> drone also just doesn't fit the problem nicely.  Nix solves the problem of
> versioning so much nicer than containers that I would prefer to use
> something
> simpler. Hydra could work, but I'm a bit intimidated by that, and would
> like to
> have something simpler for now.
>
> The LT;DR: question: is there a simple nix based build system which can be
> triggered via git{hub,lab} hooks?
>
>
> Thanks!
> Harmen
> (If there is a better place to ask this, let me know)
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