| :title: Triggers |
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| Triggers |
| ======== |
| |
| The process of merging a change starts with proposing a change to be |
| merged. Primarily, Zuul supports Gerrit as a triggering system, as |
| well as a facility for triggering jobs based on a timer. |
| Zuul's design is modular, so alternate triggering and reporting |
| systems can be supported. |
| |
| Gerrit |
| ------ |
| |
| Zuul works with standard versions of Gerrit by invoking the ``gerrit |
| stream-events`` command over an SSH connection. It also reports back |
| to Gerrit using SSH. |
| |
| Gerrit Configuration |
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
| |
| Zuul will need access to a Gerrit user. Consider naming the user |
| *Jenkins* so that developers see that feedback from changes is from |
| Jenkins (Zuul attempts to stay out of the way of developers, most |
| shouldn't even need to know it's there). |
| |
| Create an SSH keypair for Zuul to use if there isn't one already, and |
| create a Gerrit user with that key:: |
| |
| cat ~/id_rsa.pub | ssh -p29418 gerrit.example.com gerrit create-account --ssh-key - --full-name Jenkins jenkins |
| |
| Give that user whatever permissions will be needed on the projects you |
| want Zuul to gate. For instance, you may want to grant ``Verified |
| +/-1`` and ``Submit`` to the user. Additional categories or values may |
| be added to Gerrit. Zuul is very flexible and can take advantage of |
| those. |
| |
| Timer |
| ----- |
| |
| A simple timer trigger is available as well. It supports triggering |
| jobs in a pipeline based on cron-style time instructions. |