Checkmk Development Tools

This repository includes scripts/tools for Checkmk developers.

• TBD: what should go here
• TBD: what shouldn't go here

Installation

While you can just clone and use the tools inside of course (they're just plain Python or Bash scripts), the intended way to use it is via pip or inside a virtual environment.

Install it locally using pip:

[<PYTHON> -m] pip[3] install [--user] [--upgrade] checkmk-dev-tools

Contained tools

ci-artifacts

ci-artifacts is a tool for accessing and triggering (currently Jenkins only) CI job builds and making build artifacts available locally in an efficient way (i.e. avoiding unnessessary builds by comparing certain constraints like job parameters and time of already available builds).

Formerly it was only used to make artifacts available which is the reason for the name and some CLI desing desicions.

Usage

Run ci-artifacts --help in general to get more details about the usage of the tool.

If no API key, username and URL to Jenkins is provided in ~/.config/jenkins_jobs/jenkins_jobs.ini those parameters have to be specified explicitly.

This is a template of the jenkins_jobs.ini file

[jenkins]
user=carl.lama
# Get the APIKEY from the CI web UI, click top right Profile -> Configure -> Show API Key
# https://JENKINS_URL.tld/user/carl.lama/configure
password=API_KEY_NOT_YOUR_PASSWORD
url=https://JENKINS_URL.tld
query_plugins_info=False

Await result

Wait for an existing and specified build to finish. Nothing is downloaded.

ci-artifacts --log-level debug \
    await-result checkmk/master/builders/build-cmk-distro-package:6066

The returned result is a JSON might look like

{"result": "SUCCESS", "artifacts": null}

Download

Wait for an existing and specified build to finish and download the artifacts.

The destination of the artifacts can be specified with the optional argument --out-dir (defaults to out) and is relative to the base directory (--base-dir, defaults to current directory) used to fetch hashes of the downloaded artifacts. The flag --no-remove-others can be used to keep additional files in the download directory which were not part of the download. This is like a built-in garbage collection.

ci-artifacts --log-level debug \
    download checkmk/master/builders/build-cmk-distro-package:6066 \
    --base-dir ~/my-git-projects/checkmk/master \
    --out-dir package_download \
    --no-remove-others

The returned result is a JSON might look like

{"result": "SUCCESS", "artifacts": ["check-mk-enterprise-2.4.0-2024.10.31_0.jammy_amd64.deb"]}

Fetch

If there are no more constraints than a build has been completed successfully, fetch downloads a given jobs artifact, just like with download but for the latest build instead of a specified build number.

Pressing CTRL+C while the script is running will ask for confirmation, default answer is no and cancel the build.

ci-artifacts --log-level debug \
    fetch checkmk/master/winagt-build

In contrast, this is what a more detailed call might look like

ci-artifacts --log-level debug \
    fetch checkmk/master/winagt-build \
    --params EDITION=raw,DISTRO="ubuntu-22.04",CUSTOM_GIT_REF=85fa488e0a32f6ea55d8875ab9c517bdc253a8e1 \
    --params-no-check DISABLE_CACHE=false,CIPARAM_OVERRIDE_BUILD_NODE=fra001 \
    --dependency-paths agents/wnx,agents/windows,packages/cmk-agent-ctl \
    --time-constraints today \
    --base-dir ~/my-git-projects/checkmk/master \
    --out-dir package_download

--params <JOB-PARAMETERS>

Comma separated list of job-parameters used for identifying existing builds and to start new ones.

--params-no-check <JOB-PARAMETERS>

Comma separated list of job-parameters used only to start a new build. These parameters are ignored during the search of an already existing build.

--time-constraints <SPECIFIER>

Check for build date constraints when looking for existing builds - currently only today is taken into account.

--dependency-paths <PATH,..>

Comma separated list of relative paths to files and directories checked for differences when looking for existing builds.

--omit-new-build

Don't start new builds, even when no matching build could be found.

--force-new-build

Don't look for existing builds, always start a new build instead.

Request

Like fetch but with the optional parameter --passive which outputs the informations needed to trigger a build instead of triggering the build. This is helpful in pipeline scripts to keep track of issuers of a build.

ci-artifacts --log-level debug \
    request checkmk/master/winagt-build \
    --params EDITION=raw,DISTRO="ubuntu-22.04",CUSTOM_GIT_REF=85fa488e0a32f6ea55d8875ab9c517bdc253a8e1 \
    --params-no-check DISABLE_CACHE=false,CIPARAM_OVERRIDE_BUILD_NODE=fra001 \
    --time-constraints today \
    --base-dir ~/my-git-projects/checkmk/master \
    --passive

{
    "new_build":
    {
        "path": "checkmk/master/winagt-build",
        "params":
        {
            "EDITION": "raw",
            "DISTRO": "ubuntu-22.04",
            "CUSTOM_GIT_REF": "85fa488e0a32f6ea55d8875ab9c517bdc253a8e1",
            "DISABLE_CACHE": "false",
            "CIPARAM_OVERRIDE_BUILD_NODE": "fra001"
        }
    }
}

Without the --passive flag the build is triggered if no matching one is found. If a matching build with the specified parameters was found the returned JSON might look like

{
    "existing":
    {
        "path": "checkmk/master/winagt-build",
        "number": 6066,
        "url": "https://JENKINS_URL.tld/job/checkmk/job/master/job/winagt-build/6066/",
        "result": "SUCCESS",
        "new_build": false
    }
}

Validate

The validate subcommand is a combination of several other commands. It requests, identifies a matching of triggers a new build while waiting for the build to complete. Nothing is downloaded. It has the same parameters as fetch. This subcommand can be used to trigger a remote build with custom parameters or check if an existing build with these parameters passed or not.

ci-artifacts --log-level debug \
    validate checkmk/master/winagt-build \
    --params EDITION=raw,DISTRO="ubuntu-22.04",CUSTOM_GIT_REF=85fa488e0a32f6ea55d8875ab9c517bdc253a8e1 \
    --params-no-check DISABLE_CACHE=false,CIPARAM_OVERRIDE_BUILD_NODE=fra001 \
    --time-constraints today

{"result": "SUCCESS", "artifacts": []}

Todo

• request CI build from local changes

Development & Contribution

Setup

For active development you need to have poetry and pre-commit installed

python3 -m pip install --upgrade --user poetry pre-commit
git clone ssh://review.lan.tribe29.com:29418/checkmk_dev_tools
cd checkmk_dev_tools
pre-commit install
# if you need a specific version of Python inside your dev environment
poetry env use ~/.pyenv/versions/3.10.4/bin/python3
poetry install
# install "poetry-bumpversion" to easily bump package version later
# it is not enough to add it to the projects pyproject.toml file
poetry self add poetry-bumpversion

Workflow

Create a new changelog snippet. If no new snippets is found on a merged change no new release will be built and published.

If the change is based on a Jira ticket, use the Jira ticket name as snippet name otherwise use a unique name.

poetry run \
    changelog-generator \
    create .snippets/CMK-20150.md

After committing the snippet a changelog can be generated locally. For CI usage the --in-place flag is recommended to use as it will update the existing changelog with the collected snippets. For local usage remember to reset the changelog file before a second run, as the version would be updated recursively due to the way the changelog generator is working. It extracts the latest version from the changelog file and puts the found snippets on top.

Future changes to the changelog are ignored by

git update-index --assume-unchanged changelog.md

poetry run \
    changelog-generator \
    changelog changelog.md \
    --snippets=.snippets \
    --in-place \
    --version-reference="https://review.lan.tribe29.com/gitweb?p=checkmk_dev_tools.git;a=tag;h=refs/tags/"

Update the version of the project in all required files by calling

poetry run \
    changelog2version \
    --changelog_file changelog.md \
    --version_file cmk_dev/version.py \
    --version_file_type py \
    --additional_version_info="-rc42+$(git rev-parse HEAD)" \
    --print \
    | jq -r .info.version

• modify and check commits via pre-commit run --all-files

• after work is done locally:

  • update dependencies before/with a new release

poetry lock

• build and check package locally

poetry build && \
poetry run twine check dist/* &&
python3 -m pip uninstall -y checkmk_dev_tools && \
python3 -m pip install --user dist/checkmk_dev_tools-$(grep -E "^version.?=" pyproject.toml | cut -d '"' -f 2)-py3-none-any.whl

• commit, push and review the changes

git add ...
git commit -m "cmk-dev-tools: bump version, update dependencies"

• test deployed packages from test.pypi.org. The extra index URL is required to get those dependencies from pypi.org which are not available from test.pypi.org

pip install --no-cache-dir \
    -i https://test.pypi.org/simple/ \
    --extra-index-url https://pypi.org/simple \
    checkmk-dev-tools==<VERSION_WITH_RC>

• finally merge the changes and let Jenkins create the release tag and deployment