Multi-platform and multi-compiler setup

[Joel Bodenmann]

Hello folks,

Currently I use Jenkins for CD. It has been quite pain to setup and continues to be a pain to maintain. I started looking into GoCD as an alternative with the intend of keeping Jenkins for CI and using GoCD for CD.

I managed to get GoCD up and running without any issues what so ever - thanks GoCD developers!

My question: What is the intended/preferred/recommended way to implement multi-platform and multi-compiler pipelines/builds? In jenkins I use declarative pipelines with the matrix support to define a matrix (table) of possible platform & compiler combinations.

How does one achieve this behavior with GoCD? I'd appreciate it if somebody could tell me which techniques/plugins/methodologies to use.

To give this some context: I have about 10 different projects, each of which needs to be compiled on Linux, FreeBSD and Windows, with builds for GCC and Clang on each platform.

[Ketan Padegaonkar]

With GoCD, you'd typically configure a pipeline with several jobs which run across different gocd agents and use different combinations of OSes and compilers of your choice. This document talks about some concepts behind gocd — you'd want to look at the resources section understand this better.

- Ketan

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[Joel Bodenmann]

Thank you for pointing me towards resources. That's certainly something I need/want.

Is there a way of automatically generating the individual platform + compiler jobs in my pipeline "build" stage? I'd like a solution where I don't have to manually create/define a job for each Platform + Compiler option.

[Ketan Padegaonkar]

You should be able to use the groovy plugin to generate a configuration you require based on some basic looping.

https://github.com/gocd-contrib/gocd-groovy-dsl-config-plugin.

There's an example that you may find useful: https://github.com/gocd-contrib/gocd-groovy-dsl-config-plugin/blob/master/example/src/main/groovy/build_matrix/build.gocd.groovy

- Ketan

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