Fisherman

fisherman is a tool for continuous delivery of Rust projects.

It can be run on a remote server, where it will listen for webhook events being sent to it. If these involve pushes to the master_branch of a repository, it will fetch and merge the changes, rebuild the binary and allow supervisor to restart execution. This allows changes to be automated by pull requests or pushes.

Installation

fisherman can be setup easily by cloning the repository and building it in release mode, before adding it to supervisor's execution tasks.

git clone git@github.com:alexander-jackson/fisherman.git

cd fisherman/
cargo build --release

Usage

By default, fisherman expects messages to reach it on port 5000, although this can be changed in the configuration file. The location of repositories is defined by the repo_root field in the configuration file. Repositories are also assumed to use SSH, and the private key at ssh_private_key will be used for authentication.

Configuration

Configuration for fisherman is defined by the fisherman.yml file and has the following structure:

default:
    ssh_private_key: "path to SSH key for authentication"
    repo_root: "top level directory where repositories are stored"
    cargo_path: "path to binary for cargo"
    secret: "globally used default secret"
    port: "port to listen on, defaults to 5000"

specific:
    alexander-jackson/fisherman:
        secret: "specific secret value"

    FreddieBrown/dodona:
        follow: "develop"
        code_root: "/backend"
        binaries: ["api-server", "dcl"]

Discord Integration

fisherman supports sending messages to a Discord channel when a repository successfully updates. This requires a Discord token and a channel identifier to send the messages to, and will inform you of the commit hash that it was updated to and the associated commit message.

This can be set as follows in the configuration file:

default:
    discord:
        token: "<token>"
        channel_id: <channel_id>