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Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Getting Consul to run on Travis CI Server using Gradle so we can test consul integration tests

We were able to get our integration tests for consul to run in the Travis CI server.

We use consul as a service discovery system for our Microservice lib (QBit microservices). This allows us to get a list of healthy service peers that are up and able to handle streams of calls.

The trick was to get consul running on our integration server. We use Travis
First we define a new task and then check to see if the consul executable already exist.
Once we ensure consul exists, we execute it with the right command line args.
We are using gradle to manage our build. It seems to be the most flexible. 
    def execFile = new File(project.rootDir,
            '/tmp/consul/bin/consul')

    def zipFile = new File(project.rootDir, '/tmp/consul/bin/consul.zip')
Then we need to find the right OS. (We only build on Linux and Mac.)
    def linuxDist = "https://dl.bintray.com/mitchellh/consul/0.5.0_linux_amd64.zip"
    def macDist = "https://dl.bintray.com/mitchellh/consul/0.5.0_darwin_amd64.zip"
    def zipURL = null
Create the parent folder to hold the zip and the bin.
        execFile.parentFile.mkdirs()

        if (execFile.parentFile.exists()) {
            println("${execFile.parentFile} created" );
        }
Then we see if we can find the type of OS. We only support 64 bit Linux, but as you can see, we could add more.
        if (System.getProperty("os.name").contains("Mac OS X")) {
            zipURL = macDist
            println("On mac")
        } else {
            zipURL = linuxDist
            println("On linux")


            def osArc = System.getProperty("sun.arch.data.model")
            def osName = System.getProperty("os.name")
            def osVersion = System.getProperty("os.version")

            println("os.arc Operating system architecture\t\t $osArc")
            println("os.name Operating system name\t\t $osName")
            println("os.version Operating system version\t\t $osVersion")
        }
There are lots of println(s) because who know where someone might try to run this.
Copy the zip file from the URL:
        new URL(zipURL).withInputStream{ i -> zipFile.withOutputStream{ it << i }}


        for (int index = 0; index < 10; index++) {
            ant.sleep(seconds: 1)
            if (zipFile.exists()) {
                break;
            }
            println("Waiting for download $zipURL" )
        }
If the zip file exists, then unzip it, and change permissions so it is executable.
        if (zipFile.exists()) {

            println("${zipFile} ${zipFile.absoluteFile} ${zipFile.exists()} ${zipFile.size()}")
            println(execFile.parentFile)

            ant.unzip(src: zipFile, dest: execFile.parentFile)

            ant.exec(command: "/bin/sh -c \"chmod +x ${execFile}\"")
        } else {
            println("Unable to create file $zipFile from $zipURL")
        }
Lot's of debugging info.
Once we create the zip, unpack it, change permissions, then we can execute consul.
        if (!execFile.exists()) {
            findItUnpackIt()
        }


        ant.exec(command: "/bin/sh -c  \"${execFile}  \
                           agent -server -bootstrap-expect 1 \  
                -data-dir /tmp/consul\"",
                spawn: true)

Pause for a bit to let consul run before we start our tests:
        for (int index = 0; index < 10; index++) {
            ant.sleep(seconds: 1)
            ant.echo(message: "Waiting for consul $index")
        }
The next trick was to wire this into the consul client subproject.
project('cluster:consul-client') {


    dependencies {
        compile project(":qbit:web:jetty")
    }



    task runConsul(type: RunConsul) << {
        println 'task'
    }

    test.dependsOn(runConsul)
...
}
Here is the full task to RunConsul.
class RunConsul extends DefaultTask {

    def execFile = new File(project.rootDir,
            '/tmp/consul/bin/consul')

    def zipFile = new File(project.rootDir, '/tmp/consul/bin/consul.zip')


    def linuxDist = "https://dl.bintray.com/mitchellh/consul/0.5.0_linux_amd64.zip"
    def macDist = "https://dl.bintray.com/mitchellh/consul/0.5.0_darwin_amd64.zip"
    def zipURL = null


    def findItUnpackIt() {


        execFile.parentFile.mkdirs()

        if (execFile.parentFile.exists()) {
            println("${execFile.parentFile} created" );
        }


        if (System.getProperty("os.name").contains("Mac OS X")) {
            zipURL = macDist
            println("On mac")
        } else {
            zipURL = linuxDist
            println("On linux")


            def osArc = System.getProperty("sun.arch.data.model")
            def osName = System.getProperty("os.name")
            def osVersion = System.getProperty("os.version")

            println("os.arc Operating system architecture\t\t $osArc")
            println("os.name Operating system name\t\t $osName")
            println("os.version Operating system version\t\t $osVersion")
        }

        new URL(zipURL).withInputStream{ i -> zipFile.withOutputStream{ it << i }}


        for (int index = 0; index < 10; index++) {
            ant.sleep(seconds: 1)
            if (zipFile.exists()) {
                break;
            }
            println("Waiting for download $zipURL" )
        }

        if (zipFile.exists()) {

            println("${zipFile} ${zipFile.absoluteFile} ${zipFile.exists()} ${zipFile.size()}")
            println(execFile.parentFile)

            ant.unzip(src: zipFile, dest: execFile.parentFile)

            ant.exec(command: "/bin/sh -c \"chmod +x ${execFile}\"")
        } else {
            println("Unable to create file $zipFile from $zipURL")
        }


    }

    @TaskAction
    void runIt() {

        if (!execFile.exists()) {
            findItUnpackIt()
        }


        ant.exec(command: "/bin/sh -c  \"${execFile}  agent -server -bootstrap-expect 1 -data-dir /tmp/consul\"",
                spawn: true)

        for (int index = 0; index < 10; index++) {
            ant.sleep(seconds: 1)
            ant.echo(message: "Waiting for consul $index")
        }
    }
}

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