GoCD Server configuration as code

[Hagen Kuehn]

Hi All,

I wonder if it is possible to manage the base GoCD Server configuration as code?

I am aware of the pipeline as code feature, which is documented at https://docs.go.cd/current/advanced_usage/pipelines_as_code.html but I would also like to have the ability to manage all other configuration as code that gets stored in the cruise-config.xml file. I thought of using the API for this but it appears that it is not capable to set values for some aspects of the configuration.

For example it's possible to get a dump of the configuration with

curl 'https://ci.example.com/go/api/admin/config.xml' \
      -u 'username:password'

but it's not possible upload a config.xml via the API.

All I can currently think off is a hacky approach, which is basically to pretend to be a browser and send the file to https://ci.example.com/go/admin/config_xml/edit

What we are after is the ability to manage the GoCD Server configuration in our Git repository, where we would conduct peer review and also have the ability to associated a particular configuration version with certain releases etc.

Thanks for your help,

Hagen

[Aravind SV]

Hi Hagen,

Have you considered using tools such as gomatic or yagocd? This might be interesting too.

Cheers,

Aravind

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[Hagen Kuehn]

Hi  Aravind,

Thank you for your suggestions, they are much appreciated.

For the use case I am after, the suggestion shown at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/go-cd-dev/UjE9azB72Bc/RK-HtnPlwI8J seems to be sufficient. All I need is the ability to send the configuration xml back to the GoCD server without GUI. However I didn't manage to post the configuration file back to the server with curl.

This is the command I have been trying. It complains of 'xmlFile' parameter missing. Am I missing something?

curl -i -X POST 'http://127.0.0.1:8153/go/admin/restful/configuration/file/POST/xml' \

  -u 'username:password' \

  -H "Content-Type:application/x-www-form-urlencoded" \

  -H "md5:a557ff49161e659c555363bcd50ab3bb" \

  -F "xmlFile=@gocdconfig.xml"

HTTP/1.1 100 Continue

HTTP/1.1 500 Required String parameter 'xmlFile' is not present

Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2016 12:22:26 GMT

Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=16rhdvckghvsiubyi7fmg3fax;Path=/go;Expires=Fri, 23-Dec-2016 12:22:26 GMT;HttpOnly

Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

Cache-Control: must-revalidate,no-cache,no-store

Content-Length: 1074

Thank you,

Hagen

[Aravind SV]

Hi Hagen,

You should probably try something similar to:

curl -X POST http://localhost:8153/go/admin/restful/configuration/file/POST/xml \
  -d md5=baadf00ddeadbeefbaadf00ddeadbeef \
  --data-urlencode xml...@gocdconfig.xml

Cheers,

Aravind

[Hagen Kuehn]

Hi Aravind,

This worked! Thanks for your help!

With this at hand I should be able to get a workflow in place to manage the GoCD server configuration in Git.

Kind Regards,

Hagen