Feedback wanted: moving from v1.1 job triggering to v2 pipeline triggering

[okcoleman]

I’m in the middle of transitioning a job-triggering strategy to a pipeline-triggering strategy.

It took me a while to figure out how to declare variables.

Note: I understand that I need to change the env var references in my “command” to the new << >> params syntax. My question is: why doesn’t the UI show my pipeline triggering?

I’m testing this on a branch: new_circle_config

version: 2.1
parameters:
  # We must declare parameters that we intend to POST from the API.
  # https://circleci.com/docs/2.0/reusing-config/#parameter-syntax
  #
  # We specify dummy sentinal values for the defaults. The API seems to complain
  # if there are no defaults, but we really need to have these explicitly passed
  # by our caller in every case. Instead, we check for "xxx" and bail if we see
  # that in any parameter.
  # https://circleci.com/gh/paperlesspost/kubernetes-deployments/131
  NAMESPACE:
    type: string
    default: "xxx"
  SERVICE:
    type: string
    default: "xxx"
  VALUE:
    type: string
    default: "xxx"
  VALUES_PATH:
    type: string
    default: "xxx"

jobs:
  argo-release:
    docker:
      - image: "quay.io/paperlesspost/argo-repo:latest"
        auth:
          username: ${QUAY_USER}
          password: ${QUAY_PASSWORD}
    steps:
      - add_ssh_keys:
          fingerprints:
            - "7a:55:30:73:dd:0e:75:1a:82:e4:d8:a9:c3:e1:7c:5f"
      - checkout
      - run:
          name: Commit changes to kubernetes-deployments
          command: |
              [[ $NAMESPACE == "xxx" ]] && echo "must provide a NAMESPACE parameter!" && exit 1
              [[ $SERVICE == "xxx" ]] && echo "must provide a SERVICE parameter!" && exit 1
              [[ $VALUE == "xxx" ]] && echo "must provide a VALUE parameter!" && exit 1
              [[ $VALUES_PATH == "xxx" ]] && echo "must provide a VALUES_PATH parameter!" && exit 1
              argo-repo set --checkout-dir $(pwd) \
                --namespace $NAMESPACE  --service $SERVICE \
                --values-path $VALUES_PATH --value $VALUE
  promote-from-namespace:
    docker:
      - image: "quay.io/paperlesspost/argo-repo:latest"
        auth:
          username: ${QUAY_USER}
          password: ${QUAY_PASSWORD}
    steps:
      - add_ssh_keys:
          fingerprints:
            - "7a:55:30:73:dd:0e:75:1a:82:e4:d8:a9:c3:e1:7c:5f"
      - checkout
      - run:
          name: Get a value from an existing namespace and set it in another
          command: |
            [[ $NAMESPACE == "xxx" ]] && echo "must provide a NAMESPACE parameter!" && exit 1
            [[ $SERVICE == "xxx" ]] && echo "must provide a SERVICE parameter!" && exit 1
            TAG=$(argo-repo --checkout-dir $(pwd) get --namespace $FROM_NAMESPACE --service $SERVICE --values-path pp-service.image.tag)
            echo "Copying existing tag $TAG from namespace $FROM_NAMESPACE to namespace $TO_NAMESPACE"
            argo-repo set --checkout-dir $(pwd) --namespace $TO_NAMESPACE --service $SERVICE --values-path pp-service.image.tag --value $TAG
workflows:
  version: 2
  workflow:
    jobs:
      - argo-release:
          filters:
            branches:
              ignore: /.*/

I trigger with this script:

#!/bin/bash

curl -X POST \
  -u ${CIRCLE_API_TOKEN}: \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
  "branch": "new_circle_config",
  "parameters": {
      "NAMESPACE": "development",
      "SERVICE": "chartmuseum",
      "VALUE": "55Mi",
      "VALUES_PATH": "pp-service.resources.limits.memory"
  }
}' https://circleci.com/api/v2/project/gh/paperlesspost/kubernetes-deployments/pipeline

The API responds with a new “pending” job.

The UI adds a new blank line, but shows nothing else to me. It doesn’t look right.