CircleCI

You can use Shipyard's CircleCI orb to run jobs on ephemeral environments which were automatically deployed by Shipyard, authenticating into them via a bypass token. The orb connects with Shipyard during a workflow, fetching necessary environment variables in order to run E2E tests where authentication via OAuth is normally required.

How to use

In your CircleCI config, usually located in .circleci/, you can use the Shipyard Orb as per the following example:

1. Use CircleCI version 2.1 at the top of your .circleci/config.yml file.

version: 2.1

2. Add the orbs stanza below your version, invoking the orb:

orbs:
  shipyard: shipyard/shipyard@3.6.1

3. Use Shipyard elements in your existing workflows and jobs.
4. Opt-in to use of uncertified orbs on your organization’s Security settings page

Usage example

Collect the bypass token and URL for an authenticated ephemeral environment attached to this PR in order to run E2E tests on it. Please make sure that your SHIPYARD_API_TOKEN is included as an environment variable.

version: '2.1'
orbs:
  shipyard: shipyard/shipyard@1
jobs:
  ephemeral-e2e-tests:
    executor:
      name: cypress/browsers-chrome77
    steps:
      - checkout
      - shipyard/fetch-shipyard-env
      - run:
          command: |
            export CYPRESS_BASE_URL=${SHIPYARD_ENVIRONMENT_URL}
            export CYPRESS_BYPASS_TOKEN=${SHIPYARD_BYPASS_TOKEN}
            npm run test
          name: Run the e2e tests on the ephemeral environment
workflows:
  use-my-orb:
    jobs:
      - ephemeral-e2e-tests

The fetch-shipyard-env job can be configured using the following parameters:

Input name	Description	Required	Default Value	Type
api-token	Shipyard API token used to fetch necessary environment variables from Shipyard.	no	SHIPYARD_API_TOKEN	env_var_name
exit-if-not-pull-request	# of minutes to wait for Shipyard environment before timing out	no	60	integer
timeout-minutes	Gracefully exit CircleCI job if this job is not for a pull request	no	false	boolean
app-name 1	Filter the environments by name of the application on the Shipyard app	no		string

On successful run, the following environment variables are set, which can then be passed on to other actions in the same workflow.

Parameter Name	Description
SHIPYARD_ENVIRONMENT_ID	ID of the ephemeral environment
SHIPYARD_ENVIRONMENT_URL	URL of the ephemeral environment
SHIPYARD_BYPASS_TOKEN 1	Token to bypass authentication

¹ Available in v3.5.1+

Resources

Shipyard's CircleCI Orb