Skip FETCHSOURCE step in Google Cloud Build - google-cloud-build

I've set up a google cloud build trigger which should execute when I push to a repo. The repository that is sent to the workerPool is incorrect, because it should be using a proxy url to be accessible from the workerPool. When the build is triggered, it fails, because the FETCHSOURCE step at the beginning uses that incorrect "non-proxied" URL. Is there any method to skip or disable the initial attempt Cloud Build makes to clone the repo?
I initially thought this might be a step in the prebuilt cloud-builder images. However, using a vanilla ubuntu image as the first step doesn't seem to bipass the FETCHSOURCE step. I also tried using a substitution variable for _REPO_URL, but that didn't overwrite the repo url on the fetchsource step.

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Using Cloud source repository in a GCP production project

I have a standalone cloud source repository, (not cloned from Github).
I am using this to automate deploying of ETL pipelines . So I am folowing Google recommended guidelines, i.e committing the ETL pipeline as a .py file.
The cloud build trigger associated with the Cloud source repository will run the code as mentioned in the cloudbuild.yaml file and put the resultant .py file on the composer DAG bucket.
Composer will pick up this DAG and run it .
Now my question is, how do I orchestrate the CICD in dev and prod? I did not find any proper documentation to do this. So as of now I am following manual approach. If my code passes in dev, I am committing the same to the prod repo. Is there a way to do this in a better way?
Cloud Build Triggers allow you to conditionally execute a cloudbuily.yaml file on various ways. Have you tried setting up a trigger that fires only on changes to a dev branch?
Further, you can add substitutions to your trigger and use them in the cloudbuild.yaml file to, for example, name the generated artifacts based on some aspect of the input event.
See: https://cloud.google.com/build/docs/configuring-builds/substitute-variable-values and https://cloud.google.com/build/docs/configuring-builds/use-bash-and-bindings-in-substitutions

How can i remove Azure Pipeline Build from GitHub checks

I just setup CI/CD for a GitHub repo.
The CI build which validates a pull request is setup up as GitHub Action.
The CD build (which should run after the pull request was merged) is setup using Azure Pipelines as i would like to use the artifacts generated as a trigger for a Release Pipeline using Azure Pipelines as well.
The only thing that's still bugging me is, that the CD Build is also triggering automatically for a pull request and i can't figure out where i can configure those checks.
The checks currently running when a pull request is created are the following:
I want to get rid of the Continous Delivery Build here.
I tried to configure the branch protection rules but this has no effect:
On the Azure Pipeline side i completely disabled the triggers:
But this also has no visible effect to me.
I tested Disable pull request validation in the Triggers of the azure devops pipeline. On my side, it works well, and the build pipeline validation check is not displayed in the github pull request.
You can first check whether the pipeline source repo that you set the "Disable pull request validation" option corresponds to the github repo that created the pull request. Then try a few more times, it is possible that the settings are not applied immediately.
In addition, as workaround you can opt out of pull request validation entirely by specifying pr: none in yaml. Please refer to this official document.
# no PR triggers
pr: none

GitLab Pipeline trigger: rerun latest tagged pipeline

We have an app (let’s call it the main repo) on GitLab CE, that has a production build & deploy pipeline, which is only triggered when a tag is deployed. This is achieved in .gitlab-ci.yml via:
only:
- /^v.*$/
except:
- branches
We also have two other (let’s call them side) repositories (e.g. translations and utils). What I’d like to achieve is to rerun the latest (semver) tag’s pipeline of main, when either of those other side repositories’ master branches receives a push. A small detail is that one of the repositories is on GitHub, but I’d be happy to get them working on GitLab first and then work from there.
I presume I’d need to use the GitLab API to trigger the pipeline. What I’ve currently set up for the side repo on GitLab is a webhook integration for push events:
https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/{{ID}}/ref/master/trigger/pipeline?token={{TOKEN}}, where ID is the ID of the main project and TOKEN a deploy token for it.
However, this will only trigger a master pipeline for our main repo. How could I get this to (also) rerun the latest tag’s pipeline (or the latest tagged pipeline)?
Secondly, how would I go about triggering this on GitHub?
Either you can create new pipeline specifying ref which can be branches or tags, so in this case you need to know the exact tag value https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/pipelines.html#create-a-new-pipeline
Or you can retry already the executed pipeline by providing its id which you can get from https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/pipelines.html#list-project-pipelines by sorting by id and filtering by ref but it'll give you the last pipeline with a tag /^v.*$/ which may not match with the specific version you need.

Marking a commit/build for deploy

So we are currently just deploying master but are running into issues where we want to deploy the commit/build in which all our testing was ran on. This is normally a snapshop of master at 4:30pm. We run our build configuation for all tests automatically at 4:30pm (lets call this build config ALLTESTS), so we can control how this commit/build is marked in the ALLTESTS config.
We separate testing and deploy, so when a deploy is executed (either manually or automatically) it should only pick a branch/tag/commit/build that has been marked. Adding the tests to our deploy build config is not a viable solution.
Originally I had planned on using Git tags. A tag called deploy would be deleted and added to certain commits and then when the deployment is triggered that commit would be deployed.
The issue I ran into here is that there isnt an easy way to manually add git tags in a build step. Should I just write command-line build step that uses git commands remove the tag deploy from whatever commit has it and to add it to commit that is running?
Is there a better teamcity way to do this? I have successfully got teamcity tags to work via REST API but I am not sure if those fit the need either.
I suppose I could write powershell to parse the rest API to get the build id that was last successful in ALLTESTS and then feed that into the deploy somehow. How would I go about getting a build number and using that as the basis of deploy?
Should I just write command-line build step that uses git commands remove the tag deploy from whatever commit has it and to add it to commit that is running?
Quick answer is no. You can actually use something like this:
git tag -f deploy <commit-sha>
And have your tag updated to the given commit.
Cheers.

gcloud automatic redeployment Golang app

I have a Golang app running on Google Cloud App Engine that I can update manually with "gcloud app deploy" but I cannot figure out how to schedule automatic redeployments. I'm assuming I have to use cron.yaml, but then I'm confused about what url to use. Basically it's just a web app with one main index.html page with changing content, and I would like to schedule automatic redeployments... how do I have to go about that?
If you want to automatically re-deploy your app when the code changes, you need what's called CI/CD (Continuous integration/deployment). What a CI does is, for each new commit to your repository, check out the new code and run a test script. If all the tests pass (or if you don't have any tests at all), the CI server can then deploy your code to App Engine, all automatically.
One free (for open-source projects) CI provider is Travis CI. To configure it, you need to make an account with Travis, and a file called .travis.yml in the root of your repository. To set up App Engine deploys, you can follow this guide to set up a service account and add the encrypted file to your repo. It will run a gcloud app deploy from a container on their servers, whenever you push code to a certain branch (master by default) in your repo.
Another option, which avoids setting up CI at all, is to simply change your app to generate the dynamic parts of the page when it gets requested. Reading the documentation for html/template would point you in the right direction.

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