CI tools testing lab: Adding Gerrit

In this post I’m going to describe how I quickly brought up Gerrit using Docker in a lab setup, and integrated it with Jenkins.

This post is the second in a series of posts describing how I’ve used Docker to build a lab setup on my laptop to try out Zuul and check out its various features.

Please see the previous post for an explanation of my goals, choice of tools and work done previously.

Since I’m focused on testing Zuul, I did not want to spend too much time setting up Gerrit. Instead I looked for a ready made container image that I could quickly bring up.

CI tools testing lab: Initial setup with Jenkins

 Gerrit, Jenkins and the Jenkins Gerrit Trigger Plugin make for a relatively easy way to setup an automated code review system. Using these components, you can have Jenkins run automates tests on code while it is being reviewed in Gerrit.

But as projects grow in complexity and amount of developers, some shortcomings of of this system become apparent as the reviewed code being tested in Jenkins stops reflecting the way it will actually look when merged into the main development branch. This is an issue we came across on oVirt’s CI system.

Looking for a solution, we found Zuul – a tool developed by the OpenStack community when they faced similar issues.

This post is a first in a series of posts describing how I’ve used Docker to build a lab setup on my laptop to try out Zuul and check out its various features.