Kicker

What is it?

Kicker is an interactive wizard tool that helps users generate their .gitlab-ci.yml file simply by specifying the characteristics of their project (programming language(s), code analysis tools, packaging, hosting & deployment technology, acceptance tests, ...).

How does it work?

Kicker is a single-page webapp (Angular) that loads a JSON file that describes:

• all available templates,
• with their latest published version (Git tag),
• with all jobs and configuration variables,
• all available template variants,
• all available variable presets.

This file is dynamically built in the doc project (scheduled pipeline), by crawling every to-be-continuous sub-project, looking for kicker.json or kicker-extras.json files and aggregating them into one single JSON file.

• kicker.json files are meant to fully declare a template (with jobs and configuration). It should comply to kicker-schema-1.json schema.
• kicker-extras.json files are meant to declare variable presets and/or template variants. It should comply to kicker-extras-schema-1.json schema.

For more information about variable presets and template variants, see Self-managed GitLab > Advanced Usage doc.

Developer Information

This project was generated with Angular CLI version 9.1.4.

Development server

Run ng serve for a dev server. Navigate to http://localhost:4200/. The app will automatically reload if you change any of the source files.

Code scaffolding

Run ng generate component component-name to generate a new component. You can also use ng generate directive|pipe|service|class|guard|interface|enum|module.

Build

Run ng build to build the project. The build artifacts will be stored in the dist/ directory. Use the --configuration production flag for a production build.

Running unit tests

Run ng test to execute the unit tests via Karma.

Running end-to-end tests

Run ng e2e to execute the end-to-end tests via Protractor.

Further help

To get more help on the Angular CLI use ng help or go check out the Angular CLI README.