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:title: Project Configuration
.. _project-config:
Project Configuration
=====================
The following sections describe the main part of Zuul's configuration.
All of what follows is found within files inside of the repositories
that Zuul manages.
Security Contexts
-----------------
When a system administrator configures Zuul to operate on a project,
they specify one of two security contexts for that project. A
*config-project* is one which is primarily tasked with holding
configuration information and job content for Zuul. Jobs which are
defined in a config-project are run with elevated privileges, and all
Zuul configuration items are available for use. Base jobs (that is,
jobs without a parent) may only be defined in config-projects. It is
expected that changes to config-projects will undergo careful scrutiny
before being merged.
An *untrusted-project* is a project whose primary focus is not to
operate Zuul, but rather it is one of the projects being tested or
deployed. The Zuul configuration language available to these projects
is somewhat restricted (as detailed in individual sections below), and
jobs defined in these projects run in a restricted execution
environment since they may be operating on changes which have not yet
undergone review.
Configuration Loading
---------------------
When Zuul starts, it examines all of the git repositories which are
specified by the system administrator in :ref:`tenant-config` and
searches for files in the root of each repository. Zuul looks first
for a file named ``zuul.yaml`` or a directory named ``zuul.d``, and if
they are not found, ``.zuul.yaml`` or ``.zuul.d`` (with a leading
dot). In the case of an :term:`untrusted-project`, the configuration
from every branch is included, however, in the case of a
:term:`config-project`, only the ``master`` branch is examined.
When a change is proposed to one of these files in an
untrusted-project, the configuration proposed in the change is merged
into the running configuration so that any changes to Zuul's
configuration are self-testing as part of that change. If there is a
configuration error, no jobs will be run and the error will be
reported by any applicable pipelines. In the case of a change to a
config-project, the new configuration is parsed and examined for
errors, but the new configuration is not used in testing the change.
This is because configuration in config-projects is able to access
elevated privileges and should always be reviewed before being merged.
As soon as a change containing a Zuul configuration change merges to
any Zuul-managed repository, the new configuration takes effect
immediately.
.. _configuration-items:
Configuration Items
-------------------
The ``zuul.yaml`` and ``.zuul.yaml`` configuration files are
YAML-formatted and are structured as a series of items, each of which
is described below.
In the case of a ``zuul.d`` directory, Zuul recurses the directory and
extends the configuration using all the .yaml files in the sorted path
order. For example, to keep job's variants in a separate file, it
needs to be loaded after the main entries, for example using number
prefixes in file's names::
* zuul.d/pipelines.yaml
* zuul.d/projects.yaml
* zuul.d/01_jobs.yaml
* zuul.d/02_jobs-variants.yaml
.. _pipeline:
Pipeline
~~~~~~~~
A pipeline describes a workflow operation in Zuul. It associates jobs
for a given project with triggering and reporting events.
Its flexible configuration allows for characterizing any number of
workflows, and by specifying each as a named configuration, makes it
easy to apply similar workflow operations to projects or groups of
projects.
By way of example, one of the primary uses of Zuul is to perform
project gating. To do so, one can create a :term:`gate` pipeline
which tells Zuul that when a certain event (such as approval by a code
reviewer) occurs, the corresponding change or pull request should be
enqueued into the pipeline. When that happens, the jobs which have
been configured to run for that project in the gate pipeline are run,
and when they complete, the pipeline reports the results to the user.
Pipeline configuration items may only appear in :term:`config-projects
<config-project>`.
Generally, a Zuul administrator would define a small number of
pipelines which represent the workflow processes used in their
environment. Each project can then be added to the available
pipelines as appropriate.
Here is an example :term:`check` pipeline, which runs whenever a new
patchset is created in Gerrit. If the associated jobs all report
success, the pipeline reports back to Gerrit with ``Verified`` vote of
+1, or if at least one of them fails, a -1:
.. code-block:: yaml
- pipeline:
name: check
manager: independent
trigger:
my_gerrit:
- event: patchset-created
success:
my_gerrit:
Verified: 1
failure:
my_gerrit
Verified: -1
.. TODO: See TODO for more annotated examples of common pipeline configurations.
.. attr:: pipeline
The attributes available on a pipeline are as follows (all are
optional unless otherwise specified):
.. attr:: name
:required:
This is used later in the project definition to indicate what jobs
should be run for events in the pipeline.
.. attr:: manager
:required:
There are currently two schemes for managing pipelines:
.. value:: independent
Every event in this pipeline should be treated as independent
of other events in the pipeline. This is appropriate when
the order of events in the pipeline doesn't matter because
the results of the actions this pipeline performs can not
affect other events in the pipeline. For example, when a
change is first uploaded for review, you may want to run
tests on that change to provide early feedback to reviewers.
At the end of the tests, the change is not going to be
merged, so it is safe to run these tests in parallel without
regard to any other changes in the pipeline. They are
independent.
Another type of pipeline that is independent is a post-merge
pipeline. In that case, the changes have already merged, so
the results can not affect any other events in the pipeline.
.. value:: dependent
The dependent pipeline manager is designed for gating. It
ensures that every change is tested exactly as it is going to
be merged into the repository. An ideal gating system would
test one change at a time, applied to the tip of the
repository, and only if that change passed tests would it be
merged. Then the next change in line would be tested the
same way. In order to achieve parallel testing of changes,
the dependent pipeline manager performs speculative execution
on changes. It orders changes based on their entry into the
pipeline. It begins testing all changes in parallel,
assuming that each change ahead in the pipeline will pass its
tests. If they all succeed, all the changes can be tested
and merged in parallel. If a change near the front of the
pipeline fails its tests, each change behind it ignores
whatever tests have been completed and are tested again
without the change in front. This way gate tests may run in
parallel but still be tested correctly, exactly as they will
appear in the repository when merged.
For more detail on the theory and operation of Zuul's
dependent pipeline manager, see: :doc:`gating`.
.. attr:: post-review
:default: false
This is a boolean which indicates that this pipeline executes
code that has been reviewed. Some jobs perform actions which
should not be permitted with unreviewed code. When this value
is ``false`` those jobs will not be permitted to run in the
pipeline. If a pipeline is designed only to be used after
changes are reviewed or merged, set this value to ``true`` to
permit such jobs.
For more information, see :ref:`secret` and
:attr:`job.post-review`.
.. attr:: description
This field may be used to provide a textual description of the
pipeline. It may appear in the status page or in documentation.
.. attr:: success-message
:default: Build successful.
The introductory text in reports when all the voting jobs are
successful.
.. attr:: failure-message
:default: Build failed.
The introductory text in reports when at least one voting job
fails.
.. attr:: merge-failure-message
:default: Merge failed.
The introductory text in the message reported when a change
fails to merge with the current state of the repository.
Defaults to "Merge failed."
.. attr:: footer-message
Supplies additional information after test results. Useful for
adding information about the CI system such as debugging and
contact details.
.. attr:: trigger
At least one trigger source must be supplied for each pipeline.
Triggers are not exclusive -- matching events may be placed in
multiple pipelines, and they will behave independently in each
of the pipelines they match.
Triggers are loaded from their connection name. The driver type
of the connection will dictate which options are available. See
:ref:`drivers`.
.. attr:: require
If this section is present, it establishes prerequisites for
any kind of item entering the Pipeline. Regardless of how the
item is to be enqueued (via any trigger or automatic dependency
resolution), the conditions specified here must be met or the
item will not be enqueued. These requirements may vary
depending on the source of the item being enqueued.
Requirements are loaded from their connection name. The driver
type of the connection will dictate which options are available.
See :ref:`drivers`.
.. attr:: reject
If this section is present, it establishes prerequisites that
can block an item from being enqueued. It can be considered a
negative version of :attr:`pipeline.require`.
Requirements are loaded from their connection name. The driver
type of the connection will dictate which options are available.
See :ref:`drivers`.
.. attr:: dequeue-on-new-patchset
:default: true
Normally, if a new patchset is uploaded to a change that is in a
pipeline, the existing entry in the pipeline will be removed
(with jobs canceled and any dependent changes that can no longer
merge as well. To suppress this behavior (and allow jobs to
continue running), set this to ``false``.
.. attr:: ignore-dependencies
:default: false
In any kind of pipeline (dependent or independent), Zuul will
attempt to enqueue all dependencies ahead of the current change
so that they are tested together (independent pipelines report
the results of each change regardless of the results of changes
ahead). To ignore dependencies completely in an independent
pipeline, set this to ``true``. This option is ignored by
dependent pipelines.
.. attr:: precedence
:default: normal
Indicates how the build scheduler should prioritize jobs for
different pipelines. Each pipeline may have one precedence,
jobs for pipelines with a higher precedence will be run before
ones with lower. The value should be one of ``high``,
``normal``, or ``low``. Default: ``normal``.
.. _reporters:
The following options configure :term:`reporters <reporter>`.
Reporters are complementary to triggers; where a trigger is an
event on a connection which causes Zuul to enqueue an item, a
reporter is the action performed on a connection when an item is
dequeued after its jobs complete. The actual syntax for a reporter
is defined by the driver which implements it. See :ref:`drivers`
for more information.
.. attr:: success
Describes where Zuul should report to if all the jobs complete
successfully. This section is optional; if it is omitted, Zuul
will run jobs and do nothing on success -- it will not report at
all. If the section is present, the listed :term:`reporters
<reporter>` will be asked to report on the jobs. The reporters
are listed by their connection name. The options available
depend on the driver for the supplied connection.
.. attr:: failure
These reporters describe what Zuul should do if at least one job
fails.
.. attr:: merge-failure
These reporters describe what Zuul should do if it is unable to
merge in the patchset. If no merge-failure reporters are listed
then the ``failure`` reporters will be used to notify of
unsuccessful merges.
.. attr:: start
These reporters describe what Zuul should do when a change is
added to the pipeline. This can be used, for example, to reset
a previously reported result.
.. attr:: disabled
These reporters describe what Zuul should do when a pipeline is
disabled. See ``disable-after-consecutive-failures``.
The following options can be used to alter Zuul's behavior to
mitigate situations in which jobs are failing frequently (perhaps
due to a problem with an external dependency, or unusually high
non-deterministic test failures).
.. attr:: disable-after-consecutive-failures
If set, a pipeline can enter a *disabled* state if too many
changes in a row fail. When this value is exceeded the pipeline
will stop reporting to any of the **success**, **failure** or
**merge-failure** reporters and instead only report to the
**disabled** reporters. (No **start** reports are made when a
pipeline is disabled).
.. attr:: window
:default: 20
Dependent pipeline managers only. Zuul can rate limit dependent
pipelines in a manner similar to TCP flow control. Jobs are
only started for items in the queue if they are within the
actionable window for the pipeline. The initial length of this
window is configurable with this value. The value given should
be a positive integer value. A value of ``0`` disables rate
limiting on the :value:`dependent pipeline manager
<pipeline.manager.dependent>`.
.. attr:: window-floor
:default: 3
Dependent pipeline managers only. This is the minimum value for
the window described above. Should be a positive non zero
integer value.
.. attr:: window-increase-type
:default: linear
Dependent pipeline managers only. This value describes how the
window should grow when changes are successfully merged by zuul.
.. value:: linear
Indicates that **window-increase-factor** should be added to
the previous window value.
.. value:: exponential
Indicates that **window-increase-factor** should be
multiplied against the previous window value and the result
will become the window size.
.. attr:: window-increase-factor
:default: 1
Dependent pipeline managers only. The value to be added or
multiplied against the previous window value to determine the
new window after successful change merges.
.. attr:: window-decrease-type
:default: exponential
Dependent pipeline managers only. This value describes how the
window should shrink when changes are not able to be merged by
Zuul.
.. value:: linear
Indicates that **window-decrease-factor** should be
subtracted from the previous window value.
.. value:: exponential
Indicates that **window-decrease-factor** should be divided
against the previous window value and the result will become
the window size.
.. attr:: window-decrease-factor
:default: 2
:value:`Dependent pipeline managers
<pipeline.manager.dependent>` only. The value to be subtracted
or divided against the previous window value to determine the
new window after unsuccessful change merges.
.. _job:
Job
~~~
A job is a unit of work performed by Zuul on an item enqueued into a
pipeline. Items may run any number of jobs (which may depend on each
other). Each job is an invocation of an Ansible playbook with a
specific inventory of hosts. The actual tasks that are run by the job
appear in the playbook for that job while the attributes that appear in the
Zuul configuration specify information about when, where, and how the
job should be run.
Jobs in Zuul support inheritance. Any job may specify a single parent
job, and any attributes not set on the child job are collected from
the parent job. In this way, a configuration structure may be built
starting with very basic jobs which describe characteristics that all
jobs on the system should have, progressing through stages of
specialization before arriving at a particular job. A job may inherit
from any other job in any project (however, if the other job is marked
as :attr:`job.final`, jobs may not inherit from it).
A job with no parent is called a *base job* and may only be defined in
a :term:`config-project`. Every other job must have a parent, and so
ultimately, all jobs must have an inheritance path which terminates at
a base job. Each tenant has a default parent job which will be used
if no explicit parent is specified.
Jobs also support a concept called variance. The first time a job
definition appears is called the reference definition of the job.
Subsequent job definitions with the same name are called variants.
These may have different selection criteria which indicate to Zuul
that, for instance, the job should behave differently on a different
git branch. Unlike inheritance, all job variants must be defined in
the same project. Some attributes of jobs marked :attr:`job.final`
may not be overidden
When Zuul decides to run a job, it performs a process known as
freezing the job. Because any number of job variants may be
applicable, Zuul collects all of the matching variants and applies
them in the order they appeared in the configuration. The resulting
frozen job is built from attributes gathered from all of the
matching variants. In this way, exactly what is run is dependent on
the pipeline, project, branch, and content of the item.
In addition to the job's main playbook, each job may specify one or
more pre- and post-playbooks. These are run, in order, before and
after (respectively) the main playbook. They may be used to set up
and tear down resources needed by the main playbook. When combined
with inheritance, they provide powerful tools for job construction. A
job only has a single main playbook, and when inheriting from a
parent, the child's main playbook overrides (or replaces) the
parent's. However, the pre- and post-playbooks are appended and
prepended in a nesting fashion. So if a parent job and child job both
specified pre and post playbooks, the sequence of playbooks run would
be:
* parent pre-run playbook
* child pre-run playbook
* child playbook
* child post-run playbook
* parent post-run playbook
Further inheritance would nest even deeper.
Here is an example of two job definitions:
.. code-block:: yaml
- job:
name: base
pre-run: copy-git-repos
post-run: copy-logs
- job:
name: run-tests
parent: base
nodeset:
nodes:
- name: test-node
label: fedora
.. attr:: job
The following attributes are available on a job; all are optional
unless otherwise specified:
.. attr:: name
:required:
The name of the job. By default, Zuul looks for a playbook with
this name to use as the main playbook for the job. This name is
also referenced later in a project pipeline configuration.
.. TODO: figure out how to link the parent default to tenant.default.parent
.. attr:: parent
:default: Tenant default-parent
Specifies a job to inherit from. The parent job can be defined
in this or any other project. Any attributes not specified on a
job will be collected from its parent. If no value is supplied
here, the job specified by :attr:`tenant.default-parent` will be
used. If **parent** is set to ``null`` (which is only valid in
a :term:`config-project`), this is a :term:`base job`.
.. attr:: description
A textual description of the job. Not currently used directly
by Zuul, but it is used by the zuul-sphinx extension to Sphinx
to auto-document Zuul jobs (in which case it is interpreted as
ReStructuredText.
.. attr:: final
:default: false
To prevent other jobs from inheriting from this job, and also to
prevent changing execution-related attributes when this job is
specified in a project's pipeline, set this attribute to
``true``.
.. attr:: success-message
:default: SUCCESS
Normally when a job succeeds, the string ``SUCCESS`` is reported
as the result for the job. If set, this option may be used to
supply a different string.
.. attr:: failure-message
:default: FAILURE
Normally when a job fails, the string ``FAILURE`` is reported as
the result for the job. If set, this option may be used to
supply a different string.
.. attr:: success-url
When a job succeeds, this URL is reported along with the result.
If this value is not supplied, Zuul uses the content of the job
:ref:`return value <return_values>` **zuul.log_url**. This is
recommended as it allows the code which stores the URL to the
job artifacts to report exactly where they were stored. To
override this value, or if it is not set, supply an absolute URL
in this field. If a relative URL is supplied in this field, and
**zuul.log_url** is set, then the two will be combined to
produce the URL used for the report. This can be used to
specify that certain jobs should "deep link" into the stored job
artifacts.
.. attr:: failure-url
When a job fails, this URL is reported along with the result.
Otherwise behaves the same as **success-url**.
.. attr:: hold-following-changes
:default: false
In a dependent pipeline, this option may be used to indicate
that no jobs should start on any items which depend on the
current item until this job has completed successfully. This
may be used to conserve build resources, at the expense of
inhibiting the parallelization which speeds the processing of
items in a dependent pipeline.
.. attr:: voting
:default: true
Indicates whether the result of this job should be used in
determining the overall result of the item.
.. attr:: semaphore
The name of a :ref:`semaphore` which should be acquired and
released when the job begins and ends. If the semaphore is at
maximum capacity, then Zuul will wait until it can be acquired
before starting the job.
.. attr:: tags
Metadata about this job. Tags are units of information attached
to the job; they do not affect Zuul's behavior, but they can be
used within the job to characterize the job. For example, a job
which tests a certain subsystem could be tagged with the name of
that subsystem, and if the job's results are reported into a
database, then the results of all jobs affecting that subsystem
could be queried. This attribute is specified as a list of
strings, and when inheriting jobs or applying variants, tags
accumulate in a set, so the result is always a set of all the
tags from all the jobs and variants used in constructing the
frozen job, with no duplication.
.. attr:: branches
A regular expression (or list of regular expressions) which
describe on what branches a job should run (or in the case of
variants: to alter the behavior of a job for a certain branch).
If there is no job definition for a given job which matches the
branch of an item, then that job is not run for the item.
Otherwise, all of the job variants which match that branch (and
any other selection criteria) are used when freezing the job.
This example illustrates a job called *run-tests* which uses a
nodeset based on the current release of an operating system to
perform its tests, except when testing changes to the stable/2.0
branch, in which case it uses an older release:
.. code-block:: yaml
- job:
name: run-tests
nodeset: current-release
- job:
name: run-tests
branch: stable/2.0
nodeset: old-release
In some cases, Zuul uses an implied value for the branch
specifier if none is supplied:
* For a job definition in a :term:`config-project`, no implied
branch specifier is used. If no branch specifier appears, the
job applies to all branches.
* In the case of an :term:`untrusted-project`, no implied branch
specifier is applied to the reference definition of a job.
That is to say, that if the first appearance of the job
definition appears without a branch specifier, then it will
apply to all branches. Note that when collecting its
configuration, Zuul reads the ``master`` branch of a given
project first, then other branches in alphabetical order.
* In the case of a job variant defined within a :ref:`project`,
if the project definition is in a :term:`config-project`, no
implied branch specifier is used. If it appears in an
:term:`untrusted-project`, with no branch specifier, the
branch containing the project definition is used as an implied
branch specifier.
* In the case of a job variant defined within a
:ref:`project-template`, if no branch specifier appears, the
implied branch specifier for the :ref:`project` definition which
uses the project-template will be used.
* Any further job variants other than the reference definition
in an untrusted-project will, if they do not have a branch
specifier, have an implied branch specifier for the current
branch applied.
This allows for the very simple and expected workflow where if a
project defines a job on the ``master`` branch with no branch
specifier, and then creates a new branch based on ``master``,
any changes to that job definition within the new branch only
affect that branch.
.. attr:: files
This attribute indicates that the job should only run on changes
where the specified files are modified. This is a regular
expression or list of regular expressions.
.. attr:: irrelevant-files
This is a negative complement of **files**. It indicates that
the job should run unless *all* of the files changed match this
list. In other words, if the regular expression ``docs/.*`` is
supplied, then this job will not run if the only files changed
are in the docs directory. A regular expression or list of
regular expressions.
.. attr:: secrets
A list of secrets which may be used by the job. A
:ref:`secret` is a named collection of private information
defined separately in the configuration. The secrets that
appear here must be defined in the same project as this job
definition.
Each item in the list may may be supplied either as a string,
in which case it references the name of a :ref:`secret` definition,
or as a dict. If an element in this list is given as a dict, it
must have the following fields.
.. attr:: name
The name to use for the Ansible variable into which the secret
content will be placed.
.. attr:: secret
The name to use to find the secret's definition in the configuration.
For example:
.. code-block:: yaml
- secret:
important-secret:
key: encrypted-secret-key-data
- job:
name: amazing-job:
secrets:
- name: ssh_key
secret: important-secret
will result in the following being passed as a variable to the playbooks
in ``amazing-job``:
.. code-block:: yaml
ssh_key:
key: descrypted-secret-key-data
.. attr:: nodeset
The nodes which should be supplied to the job. This parameter
may be supplied either as a string, in which case it references
a :ref:`nodeset` definition which appears elsewhere in the
configuration, or a dictionary, in which case it is interpreted
in the same way as a Nodeset definition, though the ``name``
attribute should be omitted (in essence, it is an anonymous
Nodeset definition unique to this job). See the :ref:`nodeset`
reference for the syntax to use in that case.
If a job has an empty or no nodeset definition, it will still
run and may be able to perform actions on the Zuul executor.
.. attr:: override-branch
When Zuul runs jobs for a proposed change, it normally checks
out the branch associated with that change on every project
present in the job. If jobs are running on a ref (such as a
branch tip or tag), then that ref is normally checked out. This
attribute is used to override that behavior and indicate that
this job should, regardless of the branch for the queue item,
use the indicated branch instead. This can be used, for
example, to run a previous version of the software (from a
stable maintenance branch) under test even if the change being
tested applies to a different branch (this is only likely to be
useful if there is some cross-branch interaction with some
component of the system being tested). See also the
project-specific :attr:`job.required-projects.override-branch`
attribute to apply this behavior to a subset of a job's
projects.
.. attr:: timeout
The time in seconds that the job should be allowed to run before
it is automatically aborted and failure is reported. If no
timeout is supplied, the job may run indefinitely. Supplying a
timeout is highly recommended.
.. attr:: attempts
:default: 3
When Zuul encounters an error running a job's pre-run playbook,
Zuul will stop and restart the job. Errors during the main or
post-run -playbook phase of a job are not affected by this
parameter (they are reported immediately). This parameter
controls the number of attempts to make before an error is
reported.
.. attr:: pre-run
The name of a playbook or list of playbooks without file
extension to run before the main body of a job. The full path
to the playbook in the repo where the job is defined is
expected.
When a job inherits from a parent, the child's pre-run playbooks
are run after the parent's. See :ref:`job` for more
information.
.. attr:: post-run
The name of a playbook or list of playbooks without file
extension to run after the main body of a job. The full path to
the playbook in the repo where the job is defined is expected.
When a job inherits from a parent, the child's post-run
playbooks are run before the parent's. See :ref:`job` for more
information.
.. attr:: run
The name of the main playbook for this job. This parameter is
not normally necessary, as it defaults to a playbook with the
same name as the job inside of the ``playbooks/`` directory
(e.g., the ``foo`` job would default to ``playbooks/foo``.
However, if a playbook with a different name is needed, it can
be specified here. The file extension is not required, but the
full path within the repo is. When a child inherits from a
parent, a playbook with the name of the child job is implicitly
searched first, before falling back on the playbook used by the
parent job (unless the child job specifies a ``run`` attribute,
in which case that value is used). Example:
.. code-block:: yaml
run: playbooks/<name of the job>
.. attr:: roles
A list of Ansible roles to prepare for the job. Because a job
runs an Ansible playbook, any roles which are used by the job
must be prepared and installed by Zuul before the job begins.
This value is a list of dictionaries, each of which indicates
one of two types of roles: a Galaxy role, which is simply a role
that is installed from Ansible Galaxy, or a Zuul role, which is
a role provided by a project managed by Zuul. Zuul roles are
able to benefit from speculative merging and cross-project
dependencies when used by playbooks in untrusted projects.
Roles are added to the Ansible role path in the order they
appear on the job -- roles earlier in the list will take
precedence over those which follow.
In the case of job inheritance or variance, the roles used for
each of the playbooks run by the job will be only those which
were defined along with that playbook. If a child job inherits
from a parent which defines a pre and post playbook, then the
pre and post playbooks it inherits from the parent job will run
only with the roles that were defined on the parent. If the
child adds its own pre and post playbooks, then any roles added
by the child will be available to the child's playbooks. This
is so that a job which inherits from a parent does not
inadvertently alter the behavior of the parent's playbooks by
the addition of conflicting roles. Roles added by a child will
appear before those it inherits from its parent.
A project which supplies a role may be structured in one of two
configurations: a bare role (in which the role exists at the
root of the project), or a contained role (in which the role
exists within the ``roles/`` directory of the project, perhaps
along with other roles). In the case of a contained role, the
``roles/`` directory of the project is added to the role search
path. In the case of a bare role, the project itself is added
to the role search path. In case the name of the project is not
the name under which the role should be installed (and therefore
referenced from Ansible), the ``name`` attribute may be used to
specify an alternate.
A job automatically has the project in which it is defined added
to the roles path if that project appears to contain a role or
``roles/`` directory. By default, the project is added to the
path under its own name, however, that may be changed by
explicitly listing the project in the roles list in the usual
way.
.. note:: Galaxy roles are not yet implemented.
.. attr:: galaxy
The name of the role in Ansible Galaxy. If this attribute is
supplied, Zuul will search Ansible Galaxy for a role by this
name and install it. Mutually exclusive with ``zuul``;
either ``galaxy`` or ``zuul`` must be supplied.
.. attr:: zuul
The name of a Zuul project which supplies the role. Mutually
exclusive with ``galaxy``; either ``galaxy`` or ``zuul`` must
be supplied.
.. attr:: name
The installation name of the role. In the case of a bare
role, the role will be made available under this name.
Ignored in the case of a contained role.
.. attr:: required-projects
A list of other projects which are used by this job. Any Zuul
projects specified here will also be checked out by Zuul into
the working directory for the job. Speculative merging and
cross-repo dependencies will be honored.
The format for this attribute is either a list of strings or
dictionaries. Strings are interpreted as project names,
dictionaries, if used, may have the following attributes:
.. attr:: name
:required:
The name of the required project.
.. attr:: override-branch
When Zuul runs jobs for a proposed change, it normally checks
out the branch associated with that change on every project
present in the job. If jobs are running on a ref (such as a
branch tip or tag), then that ref is normally checked out.
This attribute is used to override that behavior and indicate
that this job should, regardless of the branch for the queue
item, use the indicated branch instead, for only this
project. See also the :attr:`job.override-branch` attribute
to apply the same behavior to all projects in a job.
.. attr:: vars
A dictionary of variables to supply to Ansible. When inheriting
from a job (or creating a variant of a job) vars are merged with
previous definitions. This means a variable definition with the
same name will override a previously defined variable, but new
variable names will be added to the set of defined variables.
.. attr:: dependencies
A list of other jobs upon which this job depends. Zuul will not
start executing this job until all of its dependencies have
completed successfully, and if one or more of them fail, this
job will not be run.
.. attr:: allowed-projects
A list of Zuul projects which may use this job. By default, a
job may be used by any other project known to Zuul, however,
some jobs use resources or perform actions which are not
appropriate for other projects. In these cases, a list of
projects which are allowed to use this job may be supplied. If
this list is not empty, then it must be an exhaustive list of
all projects permitted to use the job. The current project
(where the job is defined) is not automatically included, so if
it should be able to run this job, then it must be explicitly
listed. By default, all projects may use the job.
.. attr:: post-review
:default: false
A boolean value which indicates whether this job may only be
used in pipelines where :attr:`pipeline.post-review` is
``true``. This is automatically set to ``true`` if this job
uses a :ref:`secret` and is defined in a :term:`untrusted-project`.
It may be explicitly set to obtain the same behavior for jobs
defined in :term:`config projects <config-project>`. Once this
is set to ``true`` anywhere in the inheritance hierarchy for a job,
it will remain set for all child jobs and variants (it can not be
set to ``false``).
.. _project:
Project
~~~~~~~
A project corresponds to a source code repository with which Zuul is
configured to interact. The main responsibility of the project
configuration item is to specify which jobs should run in which
pipelines for a given project. Within each project definition, a
section for each :ref:`pipeline <pipeline>` may appear. This
project-pipeline definition is what determines how a project
participates in a pipeline.
Multiple project definitions may appear for the same project (for
example, in a central :term:`config projects <config-project>` as wall
as in a repo's own ``.zuul.yaml``). In this case, all of the project
definitions are combined (the jobs listed in all of the definitions
will be run).
Consider the following project definition::
- project:
name: yoyodyne
check:
jobs:
- check-syntax
- unit-tests
gate:
queue: integrated
jobs:
- unit-tests
- integration-tests
The project has two project-pipeline stanzas, one for the ``check``
pipeline, and one for ``gate``. Each specifies which jobs should run
when a change for that project enters the respective pipeline -- when
a change enters ``check``, the ``check-syntax`` and ``unit-test`` jobs
are run.
Pipelines which use the dependent pipeline manager (e.g., the ``gate``
example shown earlier) maintain separate queues for groups of
projects. When Zuul serializes a set of changes which represent
future potential project states, it must know about all of the
projects within Zuul which may have an effect on the outcome of the
jobs it runs. If project *A* uses project *B* as a library, then Zuul
must be told about that relationship so that it knows to serialize
changes to A and B together, so that it does not merge a change to B
while it is testing a change to A.
Zuul could simply assume that all projects are related, or even infer
relationships by which projects a job indicates it uses, however, in a
large system that would become unwieldy very quickly, and
unnecessarily delay changes to unrelated projects. To allow for
flexibility in the construction of groups of related projects, the
change queues used by dependent pipeline managers are specified
manually. To group two or more related projects into a shared queue
for a dependent pipeline, set the ``queue`` parameter to the same
value for those projects.
The ``gate`` project-pipeline definition above specifies that this
project participates in the ``integrated`` shared queue for that
pipeline.
.. attr:: project
The following attributes may appear in a project:
.. attr:: name
:required:
The name of the project. If Zuul is configured with two or more
unique projects with the same name, the canonical hostname for
the project should be included (e.g., `git.example.com/foo`).
.. attr:: templates
A list of :ref:`project-template` references; the
project-pipeline definitions of each Project Template will be
applied to this project. If more than one template includes
jobs for a given pipeline, they will be combined, as will any
jobs specified in project-pipeline definitions on the project
itself.
.. attr:: merge-mode
:default: merge-resolve
The merge mode which is used by Git for this project. Be sure
this matches what the remote system which performs merges (i.e.,
Gerrit or GitHub). Must be one of the following values:
.. value:: merge
Uses the default git merge strategy (recursive).
.. value:: merge-resolve
Uses the resolve git merge strategy. This is a very
conservative merge strategy which most closely matches the
behavior of Gerrit.
.. value:: cherry-pick
Cherry-picks each change onto the branch rather than
performing any merges.
.. attr:: <pipeline>
Each pipeline that the project participates in should have an
entry in the project. The value for this key should be a
dictionary with the following format:
.. attr:: jobs
:required:
A list of jobs that should be run when items for this project
are enqueued into the pipeline. Each item of this list may
be a string, in which case it is treated as a job name, or it
may be a dictionary, in which case it is treated as a job
variant local to this project and pipeline. In that case,
the format of the dictionary is the same as the top level
:attr:`job` definition. Any attributes set on the job here
will override previous versions of the job.
.. attr:: queue
If this pipeline is a :value:`dependent
<pipeline.manager.dependent>` pipeline, this specifies the
name of the shared queue this project is in. Any projects
which interact with each other in tests should be part of the
same shared queue in order to ensure that they don't merge
changes which break the others. This is a free-form string;
just set the same value for each group of projects.
.. _project-template:
Project Template
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A Project Template defines one or more project-pipeline definitions
which can be re-used by multiple projects.
A Project Template uses the same syntax as a :ref:`project`
definition, however, in the case of a template, the
:attr:`project.name` attribute does not refer to the name of a
project, but rather names the template so that it can be referenced in
a `Project` definition.
.. _secret:
Secret
~~~~~~
A Secret is a collection of private data for use by one or more jobs.
In order to maintain the security of the data, the values are usually
encrypted, however, data which are not sensitive may be provided
unencrypted as well for convenience.
A Secret may only be used by jobs defined within the same project. To
use a secret, a :ref:`job` must specify the secret in
:attr:`job.secrets`. Secrets are bound to the playbooks associated
with the specific job definition where they were declared. Additional
pre or post playbooks which appear in child jobs will not have access
to the secrets, nor will playbooks which override the main playbook
(if any) of the job which declared the secret. This protects against
jobs in other repositories declaring a job with a secret as a parent
and then exposing that secret.
It is possible to use secrets for jobs defined in :term:`config
projects <config-project>` as well as :term:`untrusted projects
<untrusted-project>`, however their use differs slightly. Because
playbooks in a config project which use secrets run in the
:term:`trusted execution context` where proposed changes are not used
in executing jobs, it is safe for those secrets to be used in all
types of pipelines. However, because playbooks defined in an
untrusted project are run in the :term:`untrusted execution context`
where proposed changes are used in job execution, it is dangerous to
allow those secrets to be used in pipelines which are used to execute
proposed but unreviewed changes. By default, pipelines are considered
`pre-review` and will refuse to run jobs which have playbooks that use
secrets in the untrusted execution context to protect against someone
proposing a change which exposes a secret. To permit this (for
instance, in a pipeline which only runs after code review), the
:attr:`pipeline.post-review` attribute may be explicitly set to
``true``.
In some cases, it may be desirable to prevent a job which is defined
in a config project from running in a pre-review pipeline (e.g., a job
used to publish an artifact). In these cases, the
:attr:`job.post-review` attribute may be explicitly set to ``true`` to
indicate the job should only run in post-review pipelines.
If a job with secrets is unsafe to be used by other projects, the
`allowed-projects` job attribute can be used to restrict the projects
which can invoke that job.
.. attr:: secret
The following attributes must appear on a secret:
.. attr:: name
:required:
The name of the secret, used in a :ref:`Job` definition to
request the secret.
.. attr:: data
:required:
A dictionary which will be added to the Ansible variables
available to the job. The values can either be plain text
strings, or encrypted values. See :ref:`encryption` for more
information.
.. _nodeset:
Nodeset
~~~~~~~
A Nodeset is a named collection of nodes for use by a job. Jobs may
specify what nodes they require individually, however, by defining
groups of node types once and referring to them by name, job
configuration may be simplified.
.. code-block:: yaml
- nodeset:
name: nodeset1
nodes:
- name: controller
label: controller-label
- name: compute1
label: compute-label
- name: compute2
label: compute-label
groups:
- name: ceph-osd
nodes:
- controller
- name: ceph-monitor
nodes:
- controller
- compute1
- compute2
.. attr:: nodeset
A Nodeset requires two attributes:
.. attr:: name
:required:
The name of the Nodeset, to be referenced by a :ref:`job`.
.. attr:: nodes
:required:
A list of node definitions, each of which has the following format:
.. attr:: name
:required:
The name of the node. This will appear in the Ansible inventory
for the job.
.. attr:: label
:required:
The Nodepool label for the node. Zuul will request a node with
this label.
.. attr:: groups
Additional groups can be defined which are accessible from the ansible
playbooks.
.. attr:: name
:required:
The name of the group to be referenced by an ansible playbook.
.. attr:: nodes
:required:
The nodes that shall be part of the group. This is specified as a list
of strings.
.. _semaphore:
Semaphore
~~~~~~~~~
Semaphores can be used to restrict the number of certain jobs which
are running at the same time. This may be useful for jobs which
access shared or limited resources. A semaphore has a value which
represents the maximum number of jobs which use that semaphore at the
same time.
Semaphores are never subject to dynamic reconfiguration. If the value
of a semaphore is changed, it will take effect only when the change
where it is updated is merged. An example follows:
.. code-block:: yaml
- semaphore:
name: semaphore-foo
max: 5
- semaphore:
name: semaphore-bar
max: 3
.. attr:: semaphore
The following attributes are available:
.. attr:: name
:required:
The name of the semaphore, referenced by jobs.
.. attr:: max
:default: 1
The maximum number of running jobs which can use this semaphore.