Basic GeneXus CI/CD pipeline

Inside this repo you will find an example on how to set up a CI/CD pipeline using GeneXus.

Environment

The environment used for this demo consists on two Windows Server 2019 instances hosted on AWS. One of them is the GXServer and the other one is hosting both a Jenkins instance and a local Tomcat installation which is used as the QA environment to deploy to.

Flow

The pipeline's flow looks like this:

The setup is as follows:

• One freestyle job to poll the GXServer for changes, which will update the local copy of the KB if there are any. It triggers a pipeline execution as a post build action.

• One pipeline which carries out the following tasks in order:

  • Static code analysis using KBDoctor.
  • Builds the KB and executes GXTest Unit Tests using an MSBuild task.
  • Builds the WAR using an MSBuild task.
  • Deploys the WAR to a local Tomcat using an inline Powershell script.
  • Executes GXTest UI Tests using an MSBuild task.
  • Notifies the results via email to the interested parts.

The MSBuild tasks used are available inside the scripts folder, as well as a batch script used to build the WAR and a sample KBDoctor config file which is the one used inside the pipeline.