now-pipeline

Single CI command to deploy new code to Zeit Now Includes e2e tests and the alias switch

What and why

I am super excited about Zeit Now tool; this is the "missing CI tool" for it. A single command now-pipeline

• deploys new version
• tests it
• switches alias to the new deployment
• takes down the old deployment

Should be enough to automatically update the server or service running in the cloud without breaking anything.

Install and use

npm i -g now-pipeline

Set NOW_TOKEN CI environment variable with a token that you can get from Zeit account page

Add CI command to now-pipeline. By default it will execute npm test and will pass the deployed url as NOW_URL environment variable. You can customize everything.

Example

Simple Travis commands

script:
  # after unit tests
  - npm i -g now-pipeline
  - now-pipeline

Prune existing deploys (if they do not have an alias) and show the deploy.

script:
  - npm i -g now-pipeline
  - now-pipeline-prune
  - now-pipeline
  - now-pipeline-list

Set domain alias if there is no existing one

script:
  - npm i -g now-pipeline
  - now-pipeline --alias foo.domain.com

Pass test command and name of the environment variable for deployed url

script:
  - npm i -g now-pipeline
  - now-pipeline --as HOST --test "npm run e2e"

Example projects

• todomvc-express

Additional bin commands

• now-pipeline-list - see the current deploys for the current project
• now-pipeline-prune - remove all non-aliased deploys for the current project

You can pass custom test command to the pipeline to be used after deploying fresh install using --test "command" argument. The command will get NOW_URL environment variable with new install. For example

npm i -g now-pipeline
now-pipeline --test "npm run prod-test"

where the package.json has

{
  "scripts": {
    "prod-test": "e2e-test $NOW_URL"
  }
}

Details

• now-pipeline uses Zeit API via now-client.
• You can see the list of recent actions at Zeit dashboard.
• It discovers files to send using pkgd, you can see the files by using the following command (read Smaller published NPM modules for more details)

t="$(npm pack .)"; wc -c "${t}"; tar tvf "${t}"; rm "${t}"

Related

• next-update is a similar "if tests pass, upgrade" tool for your NPM dependencies.

Small print

Author: Gleb Bahmutov <[email protected]> © 2016

• @bahmutov
• glebbahmutov.com
• blog

License: MIT - do anything with the code, but don't blame me if it does not work.

Support: if you find any problems with this module, email / tweet / open issue on Github

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2016 Gleb Bahmutov <[email protected]>

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