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Getting Started with Pipelines

This is a short "getting started" guide. You can find out quickly if you have all common requirements available to get pipelines up and running.

As a cherry on top, you'll find the browse- and search-able documentation on your system afterwards.

  • Duration: ca. 1-3 minutes (depends on download speed)
  • Location: on the command-line
  • Utility Dependencies: php, git, composerand docker

Install Pipelines

The heavy lifting of pipelines installation is done by composer create-project in this tutorial:

$ composer create-project -n --prefer-source --keep-vcs --no-dev \
  ktomk/pipelines
Creating a "ktomk/pipelines" project at "./pipelines"
...
Generating autoload files
$  cd "$PWD/pipelines"

The pipelines utility is available at bin/pipelines now. Let's display the installed version:

$ bin/pipelines --version
pipelines version 0.0.60

If so far everything worked it confirms a working PHP version with a Composer and Git installation.

Run a Pipeline to Generate the HTML Documentation

Time to put some pressure on a pipeline. Let's generate the manual from sources and open it:

$ bin/pipelines --pipeline custom/html-docs
+++ step #1

    name...........: "build html-docs with mkdocs"
...
+++ copying artifacts from container...
$ xdg-open build/html-docs/index.html

This effectively tests if Docker is available. On the first run it will take a bit more time as remote resources are downloaded (build container and dependencies) and installed.

These are cached afterwards, which is why any future run will be faster.

In this little getting started tutorial we could see the following:

  • A working PHP + Composer setup for pipelines
  • Installed pipelines with Composer + Git
  • Docker (or similar docker(1)) is configured for pipelines
  • A container is pulled and build dependencies are downloaded during a pipeline run. These are cached.
  • Doing real work with a pipeline to transfer the HTML documentation from sources. These artefacts are then served fresh on platter.

Next Steps Suggestions

  • Read: Continue reading the documentation you just build
  • Setup: Install pipelines in your $PATH
  • Exercise: Run a "Hello World" pipeline from your shell as a one-liner