Hive Brancher

hive-brancher is a script for pulling Github repositories into staging environments so all branches can be tested against.

• Designed to be run repeatedly to check for updates
• Will remove branches that have been deleted
• Multi-repository
• Webhook on branch post-build

Script

You will need to create some files for brancher to work correctly. Examples are provided.

• config.js - tells brancher which repos to care about, post build scripts, etc.
• apacheConfig.js - tells brancher how to make the dynamic apache config files
• whitelist.json - tells the UI which branches to care about - and therefore which branchers brancher should look for
• .env - A place for a personal_github_token so that brancher has access to the repos

Also make sure your brancher.sh file has executable permissions. Many teams run this as well as the cleanup.js once every minute.

UI

• Run "node server.js" (in the ui directory) to run an express server on port 3000 or pass in a custom port like this "node server.js 8000"
• The UI is a simple form that lists out the contents of whitelist.json and allows editing
• You can do an apache passthrough to node like this:

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName branches.cars-dev.ksl.com
        DocumentRoot /var/www/hive-brancher/ui

	<Proxy>
                Order deny,allow
                Allow from all
        </Proxy>

        <Location />
                ProxyPass http://localhost:3000/
                ProxyPassReverse http://localhost:3000/
        </Location>
</VirtualHost>

TODO

This is still a work in progress. Upcoming features may include:

• A web view so you can easily see which branches have been built
• Github notices