Connect CI Pipelines

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Introduction
CI pipelines define the series of steps that must be performed in order to deliver a new version of software. Typical steps are "build", "test", "validate / compliance", "release", and maybe even "deploy". The "build" step produces an image that is then "pushed" into a registry.
Humanitec as your Internal Developer Platform needs to know about all available builds. This allows users of Humanitec to use these builds in their applications and it's the starting point for further automation.
In most setups, it's sufficient to notify Humanitec at the end of your CI pipeline about a newly available build after it has been pushed to your registry (see also Container Registries for more information).
Humanitec also offers a hosted registry in case you do not have your own registry. Using the hosted registry requires an additional step in your CI pipeline to build the image and to push it to the Humanitec registry. The following picture shows both approaches.
In most cases, the only change needed in existing CI pipelines to integrate with Humanitec is a simple curl or wget command to notify Humanitec about every new build available.
Why does Humanitec offer a hosted registry?
Almost all teams using Humanitec have their own registry either self-managed or managed by their cloud provider. Humanitec still offers a managed container registry that is compartmentalised for each organization in Humanitec. This registry is often used to test Humanitec since it is easy to just push an image with a shell script from a developer's local machine to make it available within Humanitec without already changing existing CI pipelines. The required shell script can be found further down.
Add new Image Sources
In the context of Humanitec, a CI pipeline is an image source. An image source provides Humanitec with container images which can then be deployed to the Environments of your Apps as Workloads.
Notify Humanitec
If you are already using your own container registry, the only thing you need to do is inform Humanitec about new builds. This can be done by adding a curl or wget request to the end of your existing CI pipeline:
UI
CLI
API
1.Start in the Images tab in Organization Settings.
2.Click on Connect CI pipeline.
3.Chose between using curl or wget for the post request.
4.Copy and paste the post request at the end of your CI pipeline. Make sure you replace the placeholder variables with the appropriate values.
5.As soon as new images are pushed they will be shown in the list below.
Step 1 & 2 of adding a new image source.
Step 3 & 4 of adding a new image source.
Our CLI is currently in closed beta. Please contact us if you want to learn more.
New images can be registered with Humanitec via the artefact version endpoint.
Placeholder variables in the example above:
HUMANITEC_TOKEN contains a Humanitec Static Token.
IMAGE_NAME represents the full image name excluding the tag. It should include the registry and repository. For example: registry.example.com/project/my-image.
IMAGE_TAG is the tag for the image.
COMMIT_SHA is the git SHA that the image was built from.
GIT_REF is the git reference that the image was built from. For example: refs/heads/main or refs/tags/1.3.4.
Note that you can integrate Humanitec in any CI pipeline by adding the required steps yourself. You can find example bash scripts in Write your own integration.
GitHub Actions Workflow
Humanitec offers a out-of-the-box CI pipeline integration for Github Actions. The source code of the GitHub Action is available in this public GitHub repository: Build and Push to Humanitec.
If you do not have a GitHub Actions workflow set up, you will need to create one:
1.Go to the GitHub repository you want to connect.
2.Click the Actions tab.
3.Click the Set up a workflow yourself button in the top right corner.
4.Remove all of the lines after the line that says: - uses: actions/[email protected]. The resulting file should look like this:
# This is a basic workflow to help you get started with Actions.
​
name: CI
​
# Controls when the action will run. Triggers the workflow on push or pull request
# events but only for the master branch
on:
  push:
    branches: [ master ]
  pull_request:
    branches: [ master ]
​
# A workflow run is made up of one or more jobs that can run sequentially or in parallel
jobs:
  # This workflow contains a single job called "build"
  build:
    # The type of runner that the job will run on
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
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    # Steps represent a sequence of tasks that will be executed as part of the job
    steps:
    # Checks-out your repository under $GITHUB_WORKSPACE, so your job can access it
    - uses: actions/[email protected]
Once the GitHub Actions workflow is created, you can continue to define the action that notifies Humanitec when a new image version is available. For safety please create the secret first and the code change second as described below:
1.Add the HUMANITEC_TOKEN as a repository secret:
1.In the repository you want to connect, go to Settings.
2.Select Secrets > New repository secret and create a new secret calledHUMANITEC_TOKEN and enter the token.
2.Append the Build and Push to Humanitec code snippet to the end of the YAML file.
Write your own Integration
You can integrate Humanitec with any CI pipeline or even use Humanitec from a terminal on your local machine in case you just want to give it a test without changing your existing CI pipelines. This section provides all required information and bash scripts to do that.
Full bash script for local usage
If you want to test Humanitec from your local machine (by pushing a local image to the registry provided by Humanitec), You can use the following shell script:
#!/bin/sh
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print_usage ()
{
	cat <<EOF
USAGE:
​
  ./local_build_push_notify.sh [options] IMAGE_NAME [TAG]
​
OPTIONS:
​
  -t, --token
      The token to pass into the authorization header. Will override the
      HUMANITEC_TOKEN environment variable if supplied.
​
  -o, --org
      The organization in Humanitec that the token belongs to.
​
  -h, --help
      Show this help text.
​
NOTES:
​
  IMAGE_NAME represents the full image name excluding the tag. It should include
  the registry and the repository. For example "registry.example.com/project/my-image".
​
  TAG is the tag for the image. If TAG is not provided, it will be set to the current commit SHA1.
​
  By default, the token will be read from the HUMANITEC_TOKEN environment
  variable.
​
EXAMPLE:
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  ./local_build_push_notify.sh --org my-org registry.example.com/project/my-image 0.3.2-rc5
​
EOF
}
​
key_from_json_obj ()
{
	tr -d '\n' | sed 's/^[ \t\v\f]*{.*"'"${1}"'"[ \t\v\f]*:[ \t\v\f]*"\([^"]*\)"[ \t\v\f]*[,}].*$/\1/'
}
​
fetch_url ()
{
	method="$1"
	payload=""
	if [ "$method" = "POST" ] || [ "$method" = "PUT" ] || [ "$method" = "PATCH" ]
	then
		payload="$2"
		shift
	fi
	url="$2"
	auth_header="Authorization: Bearer $HUMANITEC_TOKEN"
	if command -v curl &> /dev/null
	then
		if [ "$payload" != "" ]
		then
			curl --fail -s \
				-X "$method" \
				-H "$auth_header" \
				-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
				-d "$payload" \
				"$url"
		else
			curl --fail -s \
				-X "$method" \
				-H "$auth_header" \
				"$url"
		fi
    	elif command -v wget &> /dev/null
	then
		if [ "$payload" != "" ]
		then
			wget --quiet -O - \
				--method="$method" \
				--header="$auth_header" \
				--header="Content-Type: application/json" \
				--body-data="$payload" \
				"$url"
		else
			wget --quiet -O - \
				--method="$method" \
				--header="$auth_header" \
				"$url"
		fi
	else
		echo "System does not have the commands wget or curl installed." >&2
		exit 1
	fi
}
​
api_prefix="https://api.humanitec.io"
​
while (( $# ))
do
	case "$1" in
		'-t'|'--token')
			export HUMANITEC_TOKEN="$2"
			shift
			;;
		'-o'|'--org')
			export HUMANITEC_ORG="$2"
			shift
			;;
		'--api-prefix')
			api_prefix="$2"
			shift
			;;
		'-h'|'--help')
			print_usage
			exit
			;;
		*)
			image_name="$1"
			if [[ $2 == ""  ||  $2 == -* ]]
			then
				image_tag=""
				image_with_tag="${image_name}"
			else
				image_tag="$2"
				image_with_tag="${image_name}:${image_tag}"
				shift
			fi
	esac
	shift
done
​
if [ -z "$HUMANITEC_TOKEN" ]
then
	echo "No token specified as option or via HUMANITEC_TOKEN environment variable." >&2
	exit 1
fi
​
if [ -z "$HUMANITEC_ORG" ]
then
	echo "No Organization specified as option or via HUMANITEC_ORG environment variable." >&2
	exit 1
​
fi
​
if [ -z "$image_with_tag" ]
then
	echo "No IMAGE_NAME provided." >&2
	exit 1	
fi
​
echo "Retrieving registry credentials"
registry_json="$(fetch_url GET "${api_prefix}/orgs/${HUMANITEC_ORG}/registries/humanitec/creds")"
if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
	echo "Unable to retrieve credentials for humanitec registry." >&2
	exit 1
fi
​
username="$(echo "$registry_json" | key_from_json_obj "username")"
password="$(echo "$registry_json" | key_from_json_obj "password")"
server="$(echo "$registry_json" | key_from_json_obj "registry")"
​
ref="$(git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name HEAD)"
commit="$(git rev-parse HEAD)"
​
if [ "$image_tag" = "" ]
then
	image_tag="$commit"
fi
​
echo "Logging into docker registry"
echo "${password}" | docker login -u "${username}" --password-stdin "${server}"
if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
	echo "Unable to log into humanitec registry." >&2
	exit 1
fi
​
echo "Performing docker build"
local_tag="${HUMANITEC_ORG}/${image_name}:${image_tag}"
if ! docker build -t "$local_tag" .
then
	echo "Docker build failed." >&2
	exit 1
fi
​
remote_tag="${server}/$local_tag"
if ! docker tag "$local_tag" "$remote_tag"
then
	echo "Error pushing to remote registry: Cannot retag locally." >&2
	exit 1
fi
​
echo "Pushing image to registry: $remote_tag"
if ! docker push "$remote_tag"
then
	echo "Error pushing to remote registry: Push failed." >&2
	exit 1
fi
​
echo "Notifying Humanitec"
payload="{\"commit\":\"${commit}\",\"ref\":\"${ref}\",\"version\":\"${image_tag}\",\"name\":\"${image_name}\",\"type\":\"container\"}"
if ! fetch_url POST "$payload" "${api_prefix}/orgs/${HUMANITEC_ORG}/artefact-versions"
then
        echo "Unable to notify Humanitec." >&2
        exit 1
fi
The script will perform the following main actions:
Build a new image locally using docker.
Push the image to the Humanitec registry.
Notify Humanitec about the new image.
You can tweak the individual steps if needed (e.g., in case you need to add additional BUILD_ARGS for your docker build). Feel free to reach out to us in case you need support.
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Introduction
Why does Humanitec offer a hosted registry?
Add new Image Sources
Notify Humanitec
GitHub Actions Workflow
Write your own Integration
Full bash script for local usage