[Nix-dev] github triggered builds

[Harmen]

On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 01:08:08PM +0200, Maarten Hoogendoorn wrote:
> Unfortunately this does not really help with sharing derivations that have
> been built before.

Thanks for all the replies. Seems like I didn't miss anything obvious.

My current plan is to try gitlab with my own runner, which has a 'shell executor' option.
https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/executors/shell.html
That looks like to be exactly what I need for nix based builds.


Is this use-case of nix so uncommon (push-triggered builds)? Do most people go for Hydra?

Thanks!
Harmen

> 
> 2017-05-09 10:02 GMT+02:00 zimbatm <zimbatm at zimbatm.com>:
> 
> > Travis CI also has support for nix builds and might be easier to setup.
> >
> > On Mon, 8 May 2017, 18:17 Tomasz Czyż, <tomasz.czyz at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> 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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> >>
> >>
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