Buildkite workflow
Use our guide to set up Buildkite build and deploy steps to manage releases in Aviator. Authentication and Buildkite Webhook configuration instructions.
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Use our guide to set up Buildkite build and deploy steps to manage releases in Aviator. Authentication and Buildkite Webhook configuration instructions.
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Use this guide to configure Buildkite build and deploy steps to manage releases in Aviator. To use Aviator Releases, we recommend having for the build and deploy workflows. You may still use it as a single step, in which case the creation of Release (the build part) will be a no-op.
Buildkite doesn’t have a concept of Apps or bot accounts. Because of this, we need to take an access token for a user.
Step 1: Go to “Personal Settings” from the top-right corner
Step 2: Click “API Access Tokens”
Step 3: Click “New API Access Token”
Name the token and pick your organization
Choose “Read Builds”, “Write Builds”, and “Read Pipelines”.
Click “Create New API Access Token”
Go to your Buildkite organization’s settings from the top bar.
Go to “Notification Services”
Add “Webhook”
Choose “build.schedules”, “build.running”, “build.failing”, and “build.finished”.
Click “Add Webhook Notification”.
On Buildkite pipeline page, copy the pipeline’s URL
Go to the release project config for the build pipeline configuration. Choose Buildkite and paste the organization and pipeline names as shown in the copied URL.
Click “SAVE”.
Aviator sends the following parameters to Buildkite as environment variables when triggering the workflow:
AVIATOR_RELEASE_CUT_ID - Aviator’s internal database ID associated with the Release.
AVIATOR_RELEASE_CANDIDATE_VERSION - A unique version string tied to the Release Candidate. This can be used to tag the built artifacts.
AVIATOR_RELEASE_CUT_COMMIT_HASH - commit SHA associated with the release candidate version. You should checkout this commit SHA in the build pipeline to trigger the workflow.
If you want to skip the Build step entirely, select “Not Configured” in the Build step:
In this configuration mode, as soon as a Release is cut, the build is marked as completed. Then you can set up deployment as a separate step.
Similar to the Build step, copy the Organization Slug and Pipeline slug in the Deploy environment configuration:
Aviator sends the following parameters to Buildkite as environment variables when triggering the workflow:
AVIATOR_RELEASE_CUT_COMMIT_HASH - commit SHA associated with the release candidate version. You should checkout this commit SHA in the build pipeline to trigger the workflow.
Now you should be ready to use Aviator Release Management!
Step 4: Copy the created access token, and go to , paste the created access token to the Buildkite integration.
Name this webhook and put to the webhook URL.
AVIATOR_DEPLOYMENT_ID - Aviator’s internal database ID associated with the .
AVIATOR_RELEASE_CANDIDATE_VERSION - A unique version string tied to the . This can be used to tag the built artifacts.
