Ubuntu Manpage: buildbot - master instances creation, upgrade and management

NAME

       buildbot - master instances creation, upgrade and management

DESCRIPTION

       Buildbot master instances are located under individual folders in /var/lib/buildbot/masters. This manual
       explains how to manage them.

CREATION

       To create a new Buildbot master instance named $NAME, use the following commands:

           buildbot create-master /var/lib/buildbot/masters/$NAME
           chown -R buildbot: /var/lib/buildbot/masters/$NAME

       After which, you should review and edit the master.cfg.sample configuration file located in the master
       base directory and rename it to master.cfg.

       The configuration file syntax is extensively described in /usr/share/doc/buildbot/html (installed with
       the buildbot-doc package).

       note
           In the default configuration Buildbot uses a file-based SQLite database, stored in the state.sqlite
           file of the master's base directory. If you want to use another database engine, you may need to
           install additional packages (e.g., postgresql and python3-psycopg2 to use PostgreSQL). Refer to the
           Buildbot documentation for the associated master.cfg syntax.

       ATTENTION
           The new Buildbot web dashboard cannot be integrated into Debian yet because of policy violation (See:
           bug #883529). In the meantime, if you want to enable it in your configuration, it can be installed
           with pip3 install buildbot-www.

       You may use the following command to validate your configuration file:

           buildbot checkconfig /var/lib/buildbot/masters/$NAME/master.cfg

       Once you are satisfied with your configuration file, you may start the Buildbot master instance.
       Depending on the init system you use, this is done differently.

   systemd
       To start the instance:

           systemctl start buildbot@$NAME.service

       To enable automatic start on boot:

           systemctl enable buildbot@$NAME.service

       If you want to tune the way the instance is started (e.g., to change the user that runs the process), you
       may use a systemd drop-in:

           mkdir -p /etc/systemd/system/buildbot@$NAME.service.d
           editor /etc/systemd/system/buildbot@$NAME.service.d/user.conf

       With the following contents:

           [Service]
           User=my-user
           Group=my-group

   sysvinit
       First, you need to edit /etc/default/buildbot and configure your instance. The syntax is pretty self
       explanatory, but here is an example:

           # 1-enabled, 0-disabled
           MASTER_ENABLED[1]=1
           # short name printed on start/stop
           MASTER_NAME[1]="$NAME"
           # user to run master as
           MASTER_USER[1]="buildbot"
           # basedir to master (absolute path)
           MASTER_BASEDIR[1]="/var/lib/buildbot/masters/$NAME"
           # buildbot options
           MASTER_OPTIONS[1]=""
           # prefix command, i.e. nice, linux32, dchroot
           MASTER_PREFIXCMD[1]=""

       After which, you may start the instance:

           service buildbot start $NAME

       By default, it will automatically start on boot.

UPGRADE

By default, Buildbot master instances are automatically upgraded when installing new versions. This
consists in the following operations for each instance:

• The instance is stopped.
• buildbot upgrade-master /var/lib/buildbot/masters/$NAME is executed.
• The instance is started again.

You may disable the automatic upgrade globally by running:

dpkg-reconfigure buildbot

Or for a specific master instance by creating a .no-auto-upgrade file in its base directory:

touch /var/lib/buildbot/masters/$NAME/.no-auto-upgrade

In any case, the upgrade operation is mandatory and Buildbot will fail to restart an instance that has
not been upgraded.

After upgrading, you will find that Buildbot has created a new master.cfg.sample file in the instance
base directory. You can review it and check the differences with your own configuration file. But in most
cases, it is safe to delete this file.

upgrading from 0.8.x
If upgrading from a 0.8.x version, all master instances in must be manually migrated. This may require a
number of changes to the master configuration. Please refer to the "nine-upgrade" chapter in the
documentation for details. Once you have finished migrating, you may delete the .no-auto-upgrade files to
allow further automatic upgrades to proceed.

The buildmaster service has been renamed to buildbot.

Also, to avoid spurious errors on boot, the automatic start of each existing instance has been "disabled"
in /etc/default/buildbot (which was renamed from /etc/default/buildmaster). If you which to use systemd
to manage your instances, please refer to the CREATION section of this manual.

FILES

       /var/lib/buildbot/masters/$NAME
           Working directory for the $NAME Buildbot master instance.

       /etc/systemd/system/buildbot@$NAME.service.d
           Directory containing customization drop-ins for the $NAME Buildbot master instance service.

       /etc/default/buildbot
           The master instances services definition for sysvinit users.

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