Ask HN: How can we make the current CI/CD ecosystem better?

Re:Ask HN: How can we make the current CI/CD ecosystem better? by raptorraver on Monday December 12, 2022 @01:46AM (#33951693)

I've been thinking lately that how I could do some integration testing FOR my CI-pipelines. My client has very complex pipelines which has business logic inside them and every week we run into new bugs and regressions. I can't think any easy way to write tests for them to make it harder to break when developing new features.

Btw. Gitlab allows splitting your pipelines to multiple files using include[1]. Also we have used gitlab-ci-local[2] to run our pipelines locally when developing them.

1: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/includes.html 2: https://github.com/firecow/gitlab-ci-local

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Re:Ask HN: How can we make the current CI/CD ecosystem better? by dosisod on Monday December 12, 2022 @02:26AM (#33951908)

I havn't heard of any products or services that test the actual CI pipelines themselves, which seems like an interesting target market. I can't say how many times I have wanted to test out some CI workflow on some throw-away clone repo without mucking up the live repo.

It's good to know that you can use includes with Gitlab, And, from my quick glance at that second link, the setup process seems a bit involved. I don't like having to set up new user accounts just so that I can run a CI workflow locally.

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Re:Ask HN: How can we make the current CI/CD ecosystem better? by raptorraver on Monday December 12, 2022 @03:20AM (#33952239)

I've been able to use the tool without setting up any accounts or other settings. Just run `gitlab-ci-local` in a folder where your `.gitlab-ci.yaml` lies.

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