At Anaplan we have employed Artifactory to great effect to support our brand new CICD pipeline. The pipeline allows Helm-based microservices to be promoted through a series of 'levels of trust' until they are deemed production ready. Integral to this pipeline was the internal development of an Artifactory promotion plugin that allows us to atomically promote all Docker images associated with a Helm chart when promoting just the chart, as well as providing us with vital gating to prevent unsuitable commits from being promoted. In this talk I will present an overview of our CICD pipeline, including the motivations for the development of the Artifactory plugin that supports it. I will also dive into the complex integration test suite that gives us confidence in the correctness of the promotion mechanisms, and provide observations and guidance on best practices based on our experiences of Artifactory plugin development within our team.

1. Driving a new age of
connected planning

2. She Promoted Her Helm Chart… You
Won’t Believe What Happened Next!
Simon Walton, Anaplan

3. Why This Guy Wrote An Artifactory Plugin: The
Answer Will Shock You
Simon Walton, Anaplan

4. One Weird Trick for Promoting Your
Docker Images
Simon Walton, Anaplan

5. She Promoted Her Helm Chart… You
Won’t Believe What Happened Next!
Simon Walton, Anaplan

6. Here we go!
• Why we wrote a plugin
• How we wrote the plugin

7. So, We Wrote a Plugin
called Atomic-Promote

8. @+

9. helm-unstable docker-unstable
helm-tested docker-tested
helm-production docker-production

10. run tests
tests pass
dev cluster
publish
deploy
promote
build

11. But Why a Plugin?

12. Can Perform Promotion
Eligability Checks
2
1
We Promote Helm & Docker
Atomically

15. How Artifactory Plugins
Are Written

16. Who loves ?

17. PAPI
(Public API)
cron event api
How Plugins Workbuilds
repositories
searches
security
log

21. my-cool-new-pluginuser-plugins-devenv
prepareArtPro
startArtPro
workOnPlugin (…)
stopWorkOnPlugin
test

24. Enabling Logging
In the dev env directory: artifactory/etc/logback.xml

25. Enabling Logging
verbosity

26. How Atomic-Promote
Was Written

27. Promotion Entrypoint
/artifactory/api/plugins/build/promote/atomicPromot
e
/my-build-name/my-build-number
?
params=ciUser=jenkins|targetScope=production

28. helm-unstable docker-unstable
helm-tested docker-tested
helm-production docker-production
scopes

29. Let’s Dive In

32. Easing the Development
Workflow

33. “I don’t care if it works on your
machine! We are not shipping your
machine!”
Vidiu Platon

34. artifactory dockerplugin
poll /api/ping
docker cp docker_plugin_1:/artifactory/build/test-results/ /local/path
(exit)
push/pull images
workOnPlugin
test
--exit-code-from plugindocker-compose up

37. So, all in all

38. There are limitations.

39. You can have fun!

40. You can have confidence!

41. Open source yours!
Oh, and look out for atomic-
promote!

42. Q A