Vespene
Dev tools
ci/cd server
SHOW HN2018
How HN took it
2 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 10 critical, out of 23 comments about the project. Thread score -0.30.
Idea: 1 for, 6 againstDesign: 1 for, 3 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Jenkins alternative with simpler configuration
From 2 comments
How does this compare to something like Buildbot (https://buildbot.net/) - I share a lot of your frustrations with Jenkins and this is where we landed. (BTW thanks for ansible,…
tfinch on HNThis looks really great to me, and I can't wait to try it. I've been using buildbot for extremely light-weight CI/CD server that basically just triggers Ansible scripts on git…
ianamartin on HN
Objections
Commons Clause license is not truly open source
From 1 comment
This looks cool. Unfortunately it is Common Clause licensed and therefore not Open Source. My organization would never consider a Commons Clause licensed tool.
ensignavenger on HN
Templating build scripts with Jinja2 encourages hard-coded, non-reusable configs
From 1 comment
> When organizations start to have too many projects, they need an easy way to share values and code snippets between those projects. To support this we have Jinja2 templating of…
peterwwillis on HN
Django may be a poor fit for the pipeline logic
From 1 comment
Cool project! It strikes me that Django might not be the ideal for this project, have you thought about that? This logic [1] looks shoehorned into the framework. [1]…
michaelmcmillan on HN
Requests
Declarative syntax
From 1 comment
needs declarative syntax
bribri on HN
Docker image
From 1 comment
any plans to provide a docker image?
morenoh149 on HN
Lightweight workers without a full Django node
From 1 comment
Does every machine running a worker have to be a full node with Django? Workers in a complex CI setup can often be e.g. raspberry pi machines, iOS emulators, Windows machines…
cjbprime on HN
Questions
How CI config is kept in version control
From 1 comment
> Unlike some other CI tools, pipelines in Vespene are easily and graphically configured, and there is no custom DSL (“Domain Specific Language”) to learn and debug. Does this…
markovbot on HN
How webhooks from different git providers are normalized
From 1 comment
How do you manage normalizing webhook events from each source control provider, i.e. GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket, etc? I have been interested in building a general purpose CI/CD…
caleblloyd on HN
Alternatives named
Jenkins
From 2 comments
How does this compare to something like Buildbot (https://buildbot.net/) - I share a lot of your frustrations with Jenkins and this is where we landed. (BTW thanks for ansible,…
tfinch on HNI don't know, I'm really not trying to make one of those cliched checkbox X vs Y type grids, but when I started building Vespene I was most concerned about being able to make…
mpdehaan2 on HN
Buildbot
From 2 comments
How does this compare to something like Buildbot (https://buildbot.net/) - I share a lot of your frustrations with Jenkins and this is where we landed. (BTW thanks for ansible,…
tfinch on HNThis looks really great to me, and I can't wait to try it. I've been using buildbot for extremely light-weight CI/CD server that basically just triggers Ansible scripts on git…
ianamartin on HN
Rundeck
From 1 comment
So back around 2003 I was working at Adaptec (an IBM spinoff) and we were trying to put together a build system, I think I ended up front-ending it around DamageControl, which…
mpdehaan2 on HN
Nomad
From 1 comment
> My other idea was to write a VM/container controller, and while I think there still needs to be a simple one as Kubernetes is getting to be a beast I'm curious what you think…
sciurus on HN