DeadCI is a lightweight continuous integration and testing webserver that integrates seamlessly with GitHub (other platforms coming). As the name implies it is dead easy to use. DeadCI works by running a command of your choice at the root of the repository being built. It's easy to run TravisCI jobs from a .travis.yml locally. It also integrates nicely with JoliCI to run yours tests inside a Docker container.

Installation is very straight forward.

$ wget "https://phayes.github.io/bin/current/deadci/linux/deadci.tar.gz"
$ tar -xf deadci.tar.gz           # Extract DeadCI from tarball
$ sudo cp deadci /usr/bin         # Copy the DeadCI executable to somewhere in your $PATH
$ sudo mkdir /etc/deadci          # Create a data-directory for DeadCI
$ cp deadci.ini /etc/deadci       # Copy default settings over to data directory
$ vim /etc/deadci/deadci.ini      # Edit .ini settings as needed
$ deadci --data-dir=/etc/deadci   # Start the DeadCI webserver
Webserver started at http://example.com
Github payload URL: http://example.com/postreceive

Building from source

$ sudo apt-get install golang git mercurial      # Download go. Alternativly build from source: https://golang.org/doc/install/source
$ mkdir ~/.gopath && export GOPATH=~/.gopath     # Replace with desired GOPATH
$ export PATH=$PATH:$GOPATH/bin                  # For convenience, add go's bin dir to your PATH
$ go get github.com/phayes/deadci                # Download source and compile

Setting github to work with DeadCI is easy.

Step 1 is to set-up your github webhook. Navigate to github.com/<name>/<repo>/settings/hooks and create a new webhook. Setting up your webhook should look something like this:

Simply fill in the URL that DeadCI gives you when it boots, optionally setting your secret for HMAC verification.

Step 2 is to set-up your github access token so DeadCI can post it's results back to github. This step is optional if you don't want to show status reports on Pull Requests and commits in github.

Follow the instruction here: https://help.github.com/articles/creating-an-access-token-for-command-line-use. You should select repo and public_repo scopes.

Step 3 is to verify your firewall setting to ensure GitHub can talk to DeadCI. GitHub will need to POST to your DeadCI instance from the IP block range of 192.30.252.0/22 on the port you configured DeadCI to listen on (default is port 80).

DeadCI's RESTful API is dead-easy to use.

GET /

Example:

GET / HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 269
Connection: close
Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 00:39:46 GMT

[
   {
     "branch": "JCORE-1716",
     "commit": "50184f10163990515a3e7370cdefb9dd3725eeb9",
     "domain": "github.com",
     "owner": "highwire",
     "repo": "drupal-highwire",
     "status": "failed",
     "time": "2014-11-26 16:43:42.506212827 -0800 PST"
   }, 
   {
     "branch": "master",
     "commit": "50184f10163990515a3e7270cdefb9dd3725eab9",
     "domain": "github.com",
     "owner": "highwire",
     "repo": "drupal-highwire",
     "status": "success",
     "time": "2014-11-26 16:43:42.506212827 -0800 PST"
   }
 ]

GET /<domain>/<owner>/<repo>/<branch>/<commit>

Example:

GET /github.com/highwire/drupal-highwire/JCORE-1716/50184f10163990515a3e7370cdefb9dd3725eeb9 HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 352
Connection: close
Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 00:48:55 GMT

{
   "branch": "JCORE-1716",
   "commit": "50184f10163990515a3e7370cdefb9dd3725eeb9",
   "domain": "github.com",
   "log": "Retrying...\nCloning into 'drupal-highwire'...\nno .travis.yml found\n\nfailed: exit status 1",
   "owner": "highwire",
   "repo": "drupal-highwire",
   "status": "failed",
   "time": "2014-11-26 16:43:42.506212827 -0800 PST"
 }

POST /<domain>/<owner>/<repo>/<branch>/<commit>

To create a new build simply POST using the above pattern and DeadCI will queue the build for you. If the build already exists it will skip the queue and build it immidiately. DeadCI will then direct you to where you can see the build in action. Note that if you have GitHub configured to use DeadCI then this will happen automatically when new commits are pushed to the repository.

Example:

POST /github.com/highwire/drupal-highwire/JCORE-1716/50184f10163990515a3e7370cdefb9dd3725eeb9 HTTP/1.1

HTTP/1.1 303 See Other
Connection: close
Location: /github.com/highwire/drupal-highwire/JCORE-1716/50184f10163990515a3e7370cdefb9dd3725eeb9
Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 00:52:40 GMT