[yocto] Connecting AutoBuilder output to GitLab for meta-mono CI

[Alex Lennon]

On 05/03/2018 10:35, Paul Barker wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 9:52 AM, Alex Lennon
> <ajlennon at dynamicdevices.co.uk> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've been running an autobuilder locally for a while now to automate testing
>> of meta-mono commits.
>>
>> I see recently saw GitLab seems to support CI workers publishing logs and
>> artifacts to the site and this seems a useful thing to me.
>>
>> Does anybody have any pointers on where to go look for details on how to set
>> this up, or can offer advice to me as I set it up?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Alex
>>
> The logs are just the stdio/stderr output of the job so to have those
> display properly you'd either need to do everything in GitLab CI or
> have some sort of hack where the GitLab CI job reads the build log
> from your autobuilder and writes it to stdout.
>
> Build artifacts are a bit easier, you could define a GitLab CI job
> that copies the artifacts from your current autobuilder.
>
> You could instead move over to GitLab CI fully but I do find it a bit
> limited at times - there's no high level summary across multiple
> projects so you can't see how often your workers are busy, how many
> builds are queued, etc. I find that ok for a small team but once
> you've got more than 4 or 5 people working together you'll probably
> need those stats to know how to scale your infrastructure.
>
> Thanks,
>

Thanks for that Paul - really useful feedback.

Cheers!

Alex