Local CI Build

These instructions pertain to running the upstream OpenBMC CI locally.

Install Docker

Please install and configure Docker. The installation of Docker CE (Community Edition) varies by platform and may differ in your organization, but the Docker Docs are a good place to start looking.

Check that the installation was successful by running sudo docker run hello-world.

Each repository is built locally within the CI using the bootstrap.sh and automake toolchain.

Download the CI Image

Start by making a place for your CI repositories to live, and clone the CI scripts first:

mkdir ci_test_area
cd ci_test_area
git clone https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc-build-scripts.git

Add a Read-Only Repo

If you just want to validate a project as it is upstream, without any of your own changes, you can clone it directly into the Docker directory. This example clones and builds phosphor-hwmon directly. The upstream CI will try building everything and this includes running make check if available. It will also run format-code.sh and check if the code is formatted properly if there is a .clang-format file present in the target repository, or if there is a script in the repo named format-code.sh.

cd /path/to/ci_test_area
git clone https://github.com/openbmc/phosphor-hwmon
WORKSPACE=$(pwd) UNIT_TEST_PKG=phosphor-hwmon \
./openbmc-build-scripts/run-unit-test-docker.sh

NOTE: When running 'run-unit-test-docker.sh' make sure you do not have any uncommitted changes. The script runs git diff after 'format-code.sh' and therefore any uncommitted changes show up as output and it then fails assuming the code was improperly formatted.

NOTE: This technique is okay if you have only a quick change on a project you don't work on very often, but is more difficult to use if you would rather use an active development branch. If you plan to develop regularly on a repo, use the next technique instead.

Run CI on local changed Repo

If you have local changes in the repo, and you do not want to commit yet, it's possible to run local CI as well by setting NO_FORMAT_CODE=1 before running the script.

E.g.

WORKSPACE=$(pwd) UNIT_TEST_PKG=phosphor-hwmon NO_FORMAT_CODE=1 \
./openbmc-build-scripts/run-unit-test-docker.sh

NO_FORMAT_CODE=1 tells the script to skip the format-code.sh so that it will not format the code and thus your repo could contain un-committed changes.

Run CI for testing purposes only

To only invoke the test suite and not get caught up the various analysis passes that might be run otherwise, set TEST_ONLY=1.

E.g.

WORKSPACE=$(pwd) UNIT_TEST_PKG=phosphor-hwmon TEST_ONLY=1 \
./openbmc-build-scripts/run-unit-test-docker.sh

Reference an Existing Repo with git worktree

If you're actively developing on a local copy of a repo already, or you want to start doing so, you should use git worktree instead so that the Docker container can reference a specific branch of your existing local repo. Learn more about worktree by running git help worktree if you're curious.

This example demonstrates how to make a worktree of phosphor-host-ipmid in your Docker container.

cd /my/dir/for/phosphor-host-ipmid
git worktree add /path/to/ci_test_area/phosphor-host-ipmid

Now, if you cd /path/to/ci_test_area, you should see a directory phosphor-host-ipmid/, and if you enter it and run git status you will see that you're likely on a new branch named phosphor-host-ipmid. This is just for convenience, since you can't check out a branch in your worktree that's already checked out somewhere else; you can safely ignore or delete that branch later.

However, Git won't be able to figure out how to get to your main worktree (/my/dir/for/phosphor-host-ipmid), so we'll need to mount it when we run. Open up /path/to/ci_test_area/openbmc-build-scripts/run-unit-test-docker.sh and find where we call docker run, way down at the bottom. Add an additional argument, remembering to escape the newline (''):

PHOSPHOR_IPMI_HOST_PATH="/my/dir/for/phosphor-host-ipmid"

docker run --blah-blah-existing-flags \
  -v ${PHOSPHOR_IPMI_HOST_PATH}:${PHOSPHOR_IPMI_HOST_PATH} \
  -other \
  -args

Then commit this, so you can make sure not to lose it if you update the scripts repo:

cd openbmc-build-scripts
git add run-unit-test-docker.sh
git commit -m "mount phosphor-host-ipmid"

The easiest workflow in this situation now looks something like this:

# Hack in the main worktree.
cd /my/dir/for/phosphor-host-ipmid
git checkout -b add-foo
# Make a change.
touch foo
# Make sure to commit it.
git add foo
git commit -sm "change foo"
# Update the Docker worktree to agree with it.
cd /path/to/ci_test_area/phosphor-host-ipmid
git checkout --detach add-foo
# Now run the Docker container normally

Interactive Docker Session

To use an interactive session, you can pass the flag INTERACTIVE=true to run-unit-test-docker.sh which will drop you into a bash shell with a default D-Bus instance. This is handy if you need to run gdb on a core dump or run a daemon on your workstation.