Re-add continuous deployment

[fpagnoux]

Connected to openfisca/openfisca-ops#60 Depends on https://github.com/openfisca/openfisca-ops/pull/61

It works: https://circleci.com/gh/openfisca/legislation-explorer/714

[Br3nda]

Is there a way to make this config? I don't want this in my fork because we don't deploy to those servers.

[fpagnoux]

Is there a way to make this config?

Hmm, CircleCI config is pretty limited. The only way I could see to have a different behavior in the fork would be to use a environment variable, something like:

if [ -n "$DEPLOY" ]; then ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no deploy-legislation-explorer@fr.openfisca.org; fi

(You can only filter deployment by branch, not by organisation)

However, I'm wondering if this would really be a good way to scale continuous deployment for a multi-instance app like the legislation explorer. One solution I could imagine would be, on master merges, to trigger n deployments to deploy the legislation explorer for n countries:

  deploy:
    docker:
      - image: circleci/node:8-jessie-browsers
    steps:
      - run:
          name: Deploy France app
          command: ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no deploy-legislation-explorer@fr.openfisca.org
      - run:
          name: Deploy New Zealand app
          command: ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no deploy-legislation-explorer@nz.openfisca.org
      - run:
          name: Deploy Tunisia app
          command: ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no deploy-legislation-explorer@tn.openfisca.org

I have more trouble imagining what workflow could work with forks... Do you have one in mind?

To make sure I understand your need correctly, what is the benefit of using a fork, instead of directly contributing on this repository?

Thanks in advance 🙂

[Br3nda]

Can you put this bit in an env variable in circle ci: deploy-legislation-explorer@fr.openfisca.org Then only deploy if it's set.

[fpagnoux]

So something like:

if [ -n "$DEPLOY_SSH" ]; then ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no $DEPLOY_SSH; fi

Seems a little annoying to scale if we had several servers to deploy to... Ok for now as France seems to be, as of today, the only country interested in continuous deployment.

[fpagnoux]

• Doesn't deploy if the env var is not set
• Deploy if the env var is set

Ready for review :)

[Br3nda]

@fpagnoux We use a fork, so we have some control of the deployment. When it's an official NZ government version, we want to know that NZ has some review and control of what deploys there

[fpagnoux]

Ok, makes sense, thanks for the explanation!