refactor: Generalise pipeline generation in //nix/buildkite

Extracts the logic for generating our Buildkite pipeline (which has
been copy&pasted and slightly modified in some places outside of
depot) into a generic //nix/buildkite library.

This should cause no change in functionality.

Change-Id: Iad3201713945de41279b39e4f1b847f697c179f7
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/4726
Autosubmit: tazjin <mail@tazj.in>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
Reviewed-by: sterni <sternenseemann@systemli.org>
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Vincent Ambo 2021-12-28 13:20:54 +03:00 committed by tazjin
parent 88d7075b30
commit b7ef2a579b
2 changed files with 172 additions and 115 deletions

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# Logic for generating Buildkite pipelines from Nix build targets read
# by //nix/readTree.
#
# It outputs a "YAML" (actually JSON) file which is evaluated and
# submitted to Buildkite at the start of each build.
#
# The structure of the file that is being created is documented here:
# https://buildkite.com/docs/pipelines/defining-steps
{ pkgs, ... }:
let
inherit (builtins)
attrValues
concatMap
concatStringsSep
filter
foldl'
length
mapAttrs
toJSON;
inherit (pkgs) lib runCommandNoCC writeText;
in rec {
# Creates a Nix expression that yields the target at the specified
# location in the repository.
#
# This makes a distinction between normal targets (which physically
# exist in the repository) and subtargets (which are "virtual"
# targets exposed by a physical one) to make it clear in the build
# output which is which.
mkBuildExpr = target:
let
descend = expr: attr: "builtins.getAttr \"${attr}\" (${expr})";
targetExpr = foldl' descend "import ./. {}" target.__readTree;
subtargetExpr = descend targetExpr target.__subtarget;
in if target ? __subtarget then subtargetExpr else targetExpr;
# Create a pipeline label from the target's tree location.
mkLabel = target:
let label = concatStringsSep "/" target.__readTree;
in if target ? __subtarget
then "${label}:${target.__subtarget}"
else label;
# Skip build steps if their out path has already been built.
skip = headBranch: target: let
shouldSkip = with builtins;
# Only skip in real Buildkite builds
(getEnv "BUILDKITE_BUILD_ID" != "") &&
# Always build everything for the canon branch.
(getEnv "BUILDKITE_BRANCH" != headBranch) &&
# Discard string context to avoid realising the store path during
# pipeline construction.
(pathExists (unsafeDiscardStringContext target.outPath));
in if shouldSkip then "Target was already built." else false;
# Create a pipeline step from a single target.
mkStep = headBranch: skipIfBuilt: target: {
label = ":nix: ${mkLabel target}";
skip = if skipIfBuilt then skip headBranch target else false;
command = let
drvPath = builtins.unsafeDiscardStringContext target.drvPath;
in concatStringsSep " " [
# First try to realise the drvPath of the target so we don't evaluate twice.
# Nix has no concept of depending on a derivation file without depending on
# at least one of its `outPath`s, so we need to discard the string context
# if we don't want to build everything during pipeline construction.
"nix-store --realise '${drvPath}'"
# Since we don't gcroot the derivation files, they may be deleted by the
# garbage collector. In that case we can reevaluate and build the attribute
# using nix-build.
"|| (test ! -f '${drvPath}' && nix-build -E '${mkBuildExpr target}' --show-trace)"
];
# Add a dependency on the initial static pipeline step which
# always runs. This allows build steps uploaded in batches to
# start running before all batches have been uploaded.
depends_on = ":init:";
};
# Helper function to inelegantly divide a list into chunks of at
# most n elements.
#
# This works by assigning each element a chunk ID based on its
# index, and then grouping all elements by their chunk ID.
chunksOf = n: list: let
chunkId = idx: toString (idx / n + 1);
assigned = lib.imap1 (idx: value: { inherit value ; chunk = chunkId idx; }) list;
unchunk = mapAttrs (_: elements: map (e: e.value) elements);
in unchunk (lib.groupBy (e: e.chunk) assigned);
# Define a build pipeline chunk as a JSON file, using the pipeline
# format documented on
# https://buildkite.com/docs/pipelines/defining-steps.
makePipelineChunk = chunkId: chunk: rec {
filename = "chunk-${chunkId}.json";
path = writeText filename (toJSON {
steps = chunk;
});
};
# Split the pipeline into chunks of at most 256 steps at once, which
# are uploaded sequentially. This is because of a limitation in the
# Buildkite backend which struggles to process more than a specific
# number of chunks at once.
pipelineChunks = steps:
attrValues (mapAttrs makePipelineChunk (chunksOf 256 steps));
# Create a pipeline structure for the given targets.
mkPipeline = {
# HEAD branch of the repository on which release steps, GC
# anchoring and other "mainline only" steps should run.
headBranch,
# List of derivations as read by readTree (in most cases just the
# output of readTree.gather) that should be built in Buildkite.
#
# These are scheduled as the first build steps and run as fast as
# possible, in order, without any concurrency restrictions.
drvTargets,
# Should build steps be skipped (on non-HEAD builds) if the output
# path has already been built?
skipIfBuilt ? false,
# A list of plain Buildkite step structures to run alongside the
# build for all drvTargets, but before proceeding with any
# post-build actions such as status reporting.
#
# Can be used for things like code formatting checks.
additionalSteps ? [],
# A list of plain Buildkite step structures to run after all
# previous steps succeeded.
#
# Can be used for status reporting steps and the like.
postBuildSteps ? []
}: let
mkStep' = mkStep headBranch skipIfBuilt;
steps =
# Add build steps for each derivation target.
(map mkStep' drvTargets)
# Add additional steps (if set).
++ additionalSteps
# Wait for all previous checks to complete
++ [({
wait = null;
continue_on_failure = true;
})]
# Run post-build steps for status reporting and co.
++ postBuildSteps;
chunks = pipelineChunks steps;
in runCommandNoCC "buildkite-pipeline" {} ''
mkdir $out
echo "Generated ${toString (length chunks)} pipeline chunks"
${
lib.concatMapStringsSep "\n"
(chunk: "cp ${chunk.path} $out/${chunk.filename}") chunks
}
'';
}

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# This file configures the primary build pipeline used for the # This file configures the primary build pipeline used for the
# top-level list of depot targets. # top-level list of depot targets.
# { depot, ... }:
# It outputs a "YAML" (actually JSON) file which is evaluated and
# submitted to Buildkite at the start of each build. This means we can
# dynamically configure the pipeline execution here.
{ depot, lib, pkgs, ... }:
let let
inherit (builtins)
attrValues
concatStringsSep
foldl'
length
map
mapAttrs
toJSON;
inherit (pkgs) runCommandNoCC symlinkJoin writeText;
# Create an expression that builds the target at the specified
# location.
mkBuildExpr = target:
let
descend = expr: attr: "builtins.getAttr \"${attr}\" (${expr})";
targetExpr = foldl' descend "import ./. {}" target.__readTree;
subtargetExpr = descend targetExpr target.__subtarget;
in if target ? __subtarget then subtargetExpr else targetExpr;
# Create a pipeline label from the targets tree location.
mkLabel = target:
let label = concatStringsSep "/" target.__readTree;
in if target ? __subtarget
then "${label}:${target.__subtarget}"
else label;
# Create a pipeline step from a single target.
mkStep = target: {
command = let
drvPath = builtins.unsafeDiscardStringContext target.drvPath;
in lib.concatStringsSep " " [
# First try to realise the drvPath of the target so we don't evaluate twice.
# Nix has no concept of depending on a derivation file without depending on
# at least one of its `outPath`s, so we need to discard the string context
# if we don't want to build everything during pipeline construction.
"nix-store --realise '${drvPath}'"
# Since we don't gcroot the derivation files, they may be deleted by the
# garbage collector. In that case we can reevaluate and build the attribute
# using nix-build.
"|| (test ! -f '${drvPath}' && nix-build -E '${mkBuildExpr target}' --show-trace)"
];
label = ":nix: ${mkLabel target}";
# Skip build steps if their out path has already been built.
skip = let
shouldSkip = with builtins;
# Only skip in real Buildkite builds
(getEnv "BUILDKITE_BUILD_ID" != "") &&
# Always build everything for the canon branch.
(getEnv "BUILDKITE_BRANCH" != "refs/heads/canon") &&
# Discard string context to avoid realising the store path during
# pipeline construction.
(pathExists (unsafeDiscardStringContext target.outPath));
in if shouldSkip then "Target was already built." else false;
# Add a "fake" dependency on the initial static pipeline step. When
# uploading a pipeline dynamically, an implicit dependency on the uploading
# step is added to all newly created build steps. Since we are uploading in
# batches this stops the jobs in the first batch from running before all
# batches have been uploaded.
#
# By setting an explicit dependency on a step that has always completed at
# this point, we override that behaviour and allow the steps to start
# running already.
depends_on = ":init:";
};
# Protobuf check step which validates that changes to .proto files # Protobuf check step which validates that changes to .proto files
# between revisions don't cause backwards-incompatible or otherwise # between revisions don't cause backwards-incompatible or otherwise
# flawed changes. # flawed changes.
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command = "${depot.nix.bufCheck}/bin/ci-buf-check"; command = "${depot.nix.bufCheck}/bin/ci-buf-check";
label = ":water_buffalo:"; label = ":water_buffalo:";
}; };
in depot.nix.buildkite.mkPipeline {
# All pipeline steps before batching them into smaller chunks. headBranch = "refs/heads/canon";
allSteps = drvTargets = depot.ci.targets;
# Create build steps for each CI target skipIfBuilt = true;
(map mkStep depot.ci.targets) additionalSteps = [ protoCheck ];
++ [
# Simultaneously run protobuf checks
protoCheck
];
# Helper function to inelegantly divide a list into chunks of at
# most n elements.
#
# This works by assigning each element a chunk ID based on its
# index, and then grouping all elements by their chunk ID.
chunksOf = n: list: let
chunkId = idx: toString (idx / n + 1);
assigned = lib.imap1 (idx: value: { inherit value ; chunk = chunkId idx; }) list;
unchunk = mapAttrs (_: elements: map (e: e.value) elements);
in unchunk (lib.groupBy (e: e.chunk) assigned);
# Define a build pipeline chunk as a JSON file, using the pipeline
# format documented on
# https://buildkite.com/docs/pipelines/defining-steps.
makePipelineChunk = chunkId: chunk: rec {
filename = "chunk-${chunkId}.json";
path = writeText filename (toJSON {
steps = chunk;
});
};
pipelineChunks = attrValues (mapAttrs makePipelineChunk (chunksOf 256 allSteps));
in runCommandNoCC "depot-pipeline" {} ''
mkdir $out
echo "Generated ${toString (length pipelineChunks)} pipeline chunks"
${
lib.concatMapStringsSep "\n"
(chunk: "cp ${chunk.path} $out/${chunk.filename}") pipelineChunks
} }
''