Hi folks,
Newbie question here
I am looking into ...
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rhythmic-furniture-53688
08/30/2023, 10:04 PMHi folks,
Newbie question here
I am looking into Pants to help control jenkinsfile sprawl across hundreds of repos and trying to see how to use pants to encapsulate the build logic. Question for the pants community
• we have many repos and at the moment there is zero appetite for a monorepo. lets say I have 10 repos for 10 java/gradle applications. Should I copy/paste the pants.tom across these 10 repos or is there a better way to share pants toml configs across repos
• now lets say I have many repos for various applications across different frameworks (python, ios, java, etc). Should we have language/frameworks specific pants.toml or is there some way to have all of them group together somehow
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cold-vr-15232
08/31/2023, 7:24 AMWhat I would try in a situation like this is to crate a repo with the pants basics and add the other repos as submodules. Then it will look like a monorepo from that point of view, but developers can keep ignoring it 🙂 The problem then will become keeping the top repo updated when there are changes, and git submodules are far from ideal... But it's an idea.
cold-vr-15232
08/31/2023, 7:25 AMIt's also possible to go with the google "repo" tool that also gathers multiple repos into one, but it's not simple either.
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rhythmic-furniture-53688
08/31/2023, 6:07 PMhmmm... i have had some bad experiences with submodules so not sure i want to do this 🙂
rhythmic-furniture-53688
08/31/2023, 6:10 PMso we have gitlab for scm but use jenkins for CI. I was thinking the following
• sprinkle/configure pants across all the repos
• use gitlab CI to do the build process.
◦ this will allow us to create a parallel build system (gitlab) while dev keeps working on jenkins ci
◦ this allows us to show that gitlab ci process is a lot faster thanks to pants
◦ this also allow us to have developer use pants locally and still benefit from distributed caching
• once we show that the bits being produced from jenkins ci and gitlab ci w/pants are basically the same, we can cut off jenkins
rhythmic-furniture-53688
08/31/2023, 6:10 PMI am thinking that is the step 1 . control CI sprawl
rhythmic-furniture-53688
08/31/2023, 6:11 PMstep 2 : look into monorepo
rhythmic-furniture-53688
08/31/2023, 6:11 PMthoughts ?
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