DSC HSE, GitHub Actions workshop

Nizhniy Novgorod, May 2022

Acronyms

• DevOps - Development and IT Operations
• CI/CD - Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (Deployment)
• IaC - Infrastructure as Code

Schemes

Extremely simplified architecture of CI based on GitHub Actions

Pool of jobs (workflow) → GitHub Actions engine → Pool of runners

Typical CMake flow

Configure → Build → Test → Install (Pack)

Example

cmake ..  # Configure
make      # Build
ctest     # Test
cpack     # Pack

Project idea

C++ application that calculates sum of integers starting from 1 to user specified N. During the workshop serial version of the application will be reworked to parallel to show how dependencies are handled.

The workshop is focused of CI/CD demo, it covers automated build, test (on various Linux distributions) and GitHub release publication.