6. Concourse FAQ

6.1 Can I use the pipeline for some other repos?

Sure! Just change the app-url in credentials.yml!

6.2 Will this work for ANY project out of the box?

Not really. This is an opinionated pipeline that’s why we took some opinionated decisions. Check out the documentation to see what those decisions are.

6.3 Can I modify this to reuse in my project?

Sure! It’s open-source! The important thing is that the core part of the logic is written in Bash scripts. That way, in the majority of cases, you could change only the bash scripts without changing the whole pipeline. You can check out the scripts here.

Furthermore, if you only want to customize a particular function under common/src/main/bash, you can provide your own function under common/src/main/bash/<some custom identifier> where <some custom identifier> is equal to the value of the CUSTOM_SCRIPT_IDENTIFIER environment variable. It defaults to custom.

6.4 I ran out of resources!! (PCF Dev)

When deploying the app to stage or prod you can get an exception Insufficient resources. The way to solve it is to kill some apps from test / stage env. To achieve that just call

cf target -o pcfdev-org -s pcfdev-test
cf stop github-webhook
cf stop github-eureka
cf stop stubrunner

You can also execute ./tools/cf-helper.sh kill-all-apps that will remove all demo-related apps deployed to PCF Dev.

6.5 The rollback step fails due to missing JAR ?!

You must have pushed some tags and have removed the Artifactory volume that contained them. To fix this, just remove the tags

git tag -l | xargs -n 1 git push --delete origin

6.6 Can I see the output of a job from the terminal?

Yes! Assuming that pipeline name is github-webhook and job name is build-and-upload you can running

fly watch --job github-webhook/build-and-upload -t docker

6.7 I clicked the job and it’s constantly pending…​

Don’t worry…​ most likely you’ve just forgotten to click the play button to unpause the pipeline. Click to the top left, expand the list of pipelines and click the play button next to github-webhook.

Another problem that might occur is that you need to have the version branch. Concourse will wait for the version branch to appear in your repo. So in order for the pipeline to start ensure that when doing some git operations you haven’t forgotten to create / copy the version branch too.

6.8 The route is already in use (CF)

If you play around with Jenkins / Concourse you might end up with the routes occupied

Using route github-webhook-test.local.pcfdev.io
Binding github-webhook-test.local.pcfdev.io to github-webhook...
FAILED
The route github-webhook-test.local.pcfdev.io is already in use.

Just delete the routes

yes | cf delete-route local.pcfdev.io -n github-webhook-test
yes | cf delete-route local.pcfdev.io -n github-eureka-test
yes | cf delete-route local.pcfdev.io -n stubrunner-test
yes | cf delete-route local.pcfdev.io -n github-webhook-stage
yes | cf delete-route local.pcfdev.io -n github-eureka-stage
yes | cf delete-route local.pcfdev.io -n github-webhook-prod
yes | cf delete-route local.pcfdev.io -n github-eureka-prod

You can also execute the ./tools/cf-helper.sh delete-routes

6.9 I’m unauthorized to deploy infrastructure jars

Most likely you’ve forgotten to update your local settings.xml with the Artifactory’s setup. Check out this section of the docs and update your settings.xml.

6.10 version resource is broken

When I click on it it looks like this:

resource script '/opt/resource/check []' failed: exit status 128

stderr:
Identity added: /tmp/git-resource-private-key (/tmp/git-resource-private-key)
Cloning into '/tmp/git-resource-repo-cache'...
warning: Could not find remote branch version to clone.
fatal: Remote branch version not found in upstream origin

That means that your repo doesn’t have the version branch. Please set it up.