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:: Bacillμs Build/CI server ::

Intro

I have used Jenkins a lot in in my career for automated builds, automated

testing, continuous integration, all that crap. It's a great solution for

that. But managers big on 'DevOps' want the visibility of pipelines, which

Jenkins supports via Groovy, a big hairy extension to Java, a big hairy

language. It's total overkill for just getting some jobs to show their

live status when all it really needed was a way to tag steps within a

job.

So as a learning experiment I decided to write my own build/CI server

in pure Go, which didn't impose any domain-specific language on the

job automation process. It's implemented as a single Go file (well,

two actually -- the second file's just to customize the job artifact

browser).

I use it to schedule and monitor all of my personal project builds.

Try it out if you want a build/CI server that is easy to install and

just stays out of your way.