How to add new Circle CI Pipelines ?

[Jean-Baptiste-Lasselle]

Ok,With the svelte Web UI and its backend, I can :

• trigger any new pipeline. Just fine.
• Now,here is the problem :
  • As I would argue, You should not be able to create any new Pipeline :to create apipeline is to create it with a yaml file on git. Gitops. No unversioned Pipeline. So maybe able to add a pipeline from Web UI, but then this means that with Web UI, you just commit and push a yaml file. OK
  • So, absically, this isue is about this :
  • for the moment, If I want a new button to trigger a new Pipeline, well I have to add source code endpoint on the backend side. Ok.
  • but well, what I want is that if I git commit and push a new config.yaml in a new git repo, then I automatically have the trigger button inside the Web UI.This is another reason why I have to use the Github API, to discover git repos, and "set them up to start building". So not just the Circle CI API.
  • fine. I here note that using an API Gateway would be the best thing to achieve this : using GRavitee AI Gatewaay, I would be able to create a new API, dynamically, without changing the source code.
  • The "backend", behind every new API created in Gravitee, is the same : it 's the module that can trigger any pipeline, given :
    • a github org,
    • a github repo name,
    • the name of a git branch.
    • and with a HTML form, which dynamiccally adapts, on each git branch, to the pipeline parameters defined in the config.yaml
  • Probably same principle, to be able to after, "watch" the pipelines states.

This means, allin all,that the Circl e CI Web UI misses one very important feature , whcihc is why I started developing it :

being ableto trigger pipeline, providing pipeline parameters