Vault support in Hudson CI?

[lbauer]

It's still logged as a feature request, but we're not sure when it might be implemented.

[n14ll3r]

Any update on whether Vault will provide a proper plugin for Hudson/Jenkins?

Alternatively a description of how to do it using command line tools would do I guess.

Thanks.

[lbauer]

Integration with Hudson is logged as a feature request and I've added your "vote." However we don't have a timeframe as to when it might be implemented.

The best way to get started with the CLC would be to look at the Vault* files we've added to CC.Net:

http://ccnet.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc ... cecontrol/

These implement the "clc" based approach.

[JamesGreen]

Hi Guys,

I have had some limited initial success using the Jenkins Vault plugin:
https://github.com/jenkinsci/vault-scm-plugin

Actually, since the above link at time of writing contains only sources and I don't have the skill or inclination to build a Jenkins plugin today, we are using the binary (.hpi) found on this branch:
https://github.com/rellu/vault-scm-plug ... ter/target

We've been using Vault for ages and use to have a CCNet setup built on duct tape and hope, but that went the way of the dodo. I'm just looking at getting our CI story back on track and Jenkins seems to be what the cool kids are using, and our aged CCNet efforts weren't worth saving. In case it matters we are using Jenkins deployed to a Tomcat 7 server on Windows.

Hope this helps,
James

[lbauer]

Thanks for the info!

We'll point users to these links when we get questions about Hudson/Jenkins plugins for Vault.

Regarding CCNET, we do have many users using it, and have updated our CCNET plugin to work with the latest version of CCNET.

[JamesGreen]

And just to be clear I think the SourceGear CCNet plugin is great, as is CCNet in general. Our problems with it were of our own creation.

I haven't ruled out we may end up back there if the Jenkins plugin turns out to be not up to the task, but for us at the moment a clean break from CCNet is appealing.

Our evaluation of that plugin will continue as our current new project takes root and I will post back to this thread with any gotchas or oddities if and as they arise.

Best regards
James

[lbauer]

Thanks!

[BSayatovic]

That's great, James!

FWIW, I built an in-house plugin for Vault and Jenkins. It supports polling and triggering. Behind the scenes, it's using the Vault command line, though I would've much preferred to use the Java class library. My version doesn't support slaves at all.

[JamesGreen]

Just out of curiosity BSayatovic, how did you find authoring a Jenkins plugin?

In the end we settled on TeamCity which uses the Vault Java client*. Jenkins would have been fine but the decision to go to TeamCity was driven by the NuGet integration. We think Vault + TeamCity + Octopus is the perfect blend for what we need to get done.

(* To minimise insanity, restart the TeamCity service after copying the Vault JARs to the server

[lbauer]

FYI -- another user, Stewart Whelan, has also authored a Jenkins plugin for Vault:

https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JEN ... ult+Plugin