bw-devops

This is a contribution aimed at speeding up the creation of an AWS EC2 node for BWCE continuous integration.

The main entry point is cloudformation/devops.template. It is a AWS CloudFormation template that you can run using the CloudFormation Service and selecting "Create Stack" and uploading that file to S3.

You are then prompted for a few parameters

• BWCECFURL, the URL for the bwce_cf.zip package (v2.3), e.g. from S3,
• BWCEDockerURL, the URL for the bwce_docker.zip package (v2.3), a portion of the bwce install (docker subdir) you need to zip and make available, e.g. from S3,
• GitHubToken, an access token for your GitHub repository containing a clone of bookstore,
• JenkinsPwd, the password you want to set for the admin user on Jenkins,
• KeyName, the name of a EC2 Key Pair name you want to use to ssh into the created instance,
• TypeTag, the label that will be added on the Type tag to any of the created EC2 resources created.

Here are some details of what is actually performed by this template:

1. Create a CentOS-based EC2 M3.medium instance in your current AWS region,
2. Attach a Security Group to it with universal access on TCP:22 (SSH) and TCP:80 (HTTP) as well as internal TCP:0-65535 access within the Security Group,
3. Perform updates on the created machine (OS + Extended Packages),
4. Install base packages: python, pip, wget,
5. Install AWS CloudFormation Bootstrap, aws-cfn-bootstrap,
6. Install and configure jenkins
• Install and configure maven 3.3.9, including preparing a local repository for BWCE stuff,
• Install jenkins last stable version,
• Configure a SSH key to run jenkins CLI,
• Create the admin user with the provided JenkinsPwd,
• Add the following plugins: build-pipeline-plugin, dashboard-view, workflow-aggregator, and plain-credentials with all their dependencies,
• Configure Maven in jenkins,
• Create the the GitHub connectivity with the provided GitHubToken credentials,
• Setup a build pipeline for the bookstore sample,
• Disable Jenkins CLI access,
7. Install and configure docker,
8. Install and configure the required BWCE bits,
9. Install and configure runman (the execution part of postman) for Rest API testing,
10. Install and configure nginx to reverse proxy jenkins on port 80.