Use CI/CD provided by gitlab

[cbleek]

I think, the free services of travis are not usable anymore. The processes are just take to long, until they start.

I think, we can build, test and depoy using gitlab.com

I've setup such a build process on gitlab.

the equivalent to the tracis.yml is the gitlab-ci.yml. There we can use a docker image for the build process. I've created such Image containing everything, which is needed (composer, npm, ext-mongodb)

this way the build process gets much faster.

https://gitlab.com/yawik/yawik/-/pipelines/224218926

@TiSiE @kilip

What do you think?

The code on gitlab is currently for testing only. I'll remove the projet completly an reimport it from github, after #591 is done

[kilip]

Yes, travis build is slow.

I propose using github action to do the build. Here's a sample of symfony build:

https://github.com/symfony/symfony/runs/1487071210?check_suite_focus=true

A sample of github action config:

https://github.com/kilip/api-platform-laravel/blob/master/.github/workflows/ci.yml

If agreed, just assign me to this issue. I will transfer our build into github action.

[TiSiE]

I totally forgot that there are github actions now, dispite using them in https://github.com/cross-solution/phpunit-utils/actions

And now that I'm reminded, I like how easy the setup of github actions is.

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On the other hand, we do plan to move YAWIK to gitlab, because we like the UI and general concepts of gitlab a bit more.
So it would make sense to use the gitlab CI integration then also.

[cbleek]

I like the Gitlab software. And I like the company Gitlab even more. So I am biased.

I have found the following

• Comparison between Gitlab CI and Github Actions. (from Gitlab)
• Mirgration Gitlab CI to Github Actions (from Github)

With the Gitlab software, we can see that it is technically possible to release a new version of Gitlab with many new features every 4 weeks. And we can see how the Giltlab people do that.

What I like about Gitlab CI is the possibility to use a docker image for testing. This reduces the testing time because we don't have to compile php-mongodb every time we commit. Github Actions can also test with docker images. But you need code from a 3rd party.

Check again and let me know how we should proceed.

[cbleek]

Gitlab supports a container registry. That means it's possible to to build and store dockerimages in Gitlab. Selfhosted or gitlab.com.

I've created a Docker image https://gitlab.com/yawik/docker/build

The gitlab-ci.yml creates and stores the docker file. It's currently more or less copy&past from the gitlab docs

Gitlab also uses its own docker containers in its CI/CD process. We can see how they solve problems.

@kilip Do you know the Gitlab CI/CD process?