Hi all,
We are using Gradle to build a repository that sets up a handful of services. We are using Travis to do the build, and the build publishes pr. service artefacts to Artifactory and then trigger a deploy (to a test-environment) through our CD system (Spinnaker.)
I’d like to set up our build, so that only changed and dependent parts are deployed into the new environment. Say if there’s three services A, B and C, and A is the frontend service for services B and C - a change to B should only trigger build and deployment cycle for A and B. Doing this in Travis is somewhat cumbersome, because Travis builds are immutable (There’s mechanisms to provide caching and so on, but it doesn’t seem to work for this problem.)
We are all fairly new to Gradle, so it might be that there’s some magic to apply somewhere to make this work satisfactory, but we have not been able to find anything yet.
I’ve had a glance on how this is solved by Bazel, and it is done by listing files changed in a commit-range (using the env-var TRAVIS_COMMIT_RANGE) and setting up an execution plan based on the files changed by the commit (e.g. see https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/blob/master/scripts/ci/ci.sh) I would very much like to see a plugin solving the same problem for Gradle - first and foremost for java/scala builds, but I would suppose it’s relevant for more language environments.
What I’ve figured so far, through some exploration (read: making random statments at random places in our build-scripts) is that it should be possible to list the files touched in a commit-range, filter these towards task inputs and then execute the remaining set of tasks - the task-dependency tree should then be able to do the rest.
My questions then, before I continue any work on this, is:
- if this is a problem someone else have solved, or
- if this is a problem someone else is working on solving, or
- if there are other ways to solve this
Thank y’all in advance,
-r-