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Published: May 17, 2016 License: MIT Imports: 5 Imported by: 0

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Buildkite Agent Build status

The buildkite-agent is a small, reliable, and cross-platform build runner that makes it easy to run automated builds on your own infrastructure. It’s main responsibilities are polling buildkite.com for work, running build jobs, reporting back the status code and output log of the job, and uploading the job's artifacts.

$ buildkite-agent --help
Usage:

  buildkite-agent <command> [arguments...]

Available commands are:

  start		Starts a Buildkite agent
  artifact	Upload/download artifacts from Buildkite jobs
  meta-data	Get/set data from Buildkite jobs
  pipeline	Make changes to the pipeline of the currently running build
  help, h	Shows a list of commands or help for one command

Use "buildkite-agent <command> --help" for more information about a command.

Installing

The agents page on Buildkite has personalised instructions for installing the agent with Ubuntu (via apt), Debian (via apt), Mac OS X (via homebrew), Windows and Linux. You can also run the agent via Docker.

Starting

To start an agent all you need is your agent token, which you an find on your Agents page within Buildkite.

$ buildkite-agent start --token

Development

With Docker
$ docker-compose run agent bash
root@d854f845511a:/go/src/github.com/buildkite/agent# go run *.go start --token xxx --debug
Without Docker
# Make sure you have go installed.
brew install go --cross-compile-common
brew install mercurial

# Setup your GOPATH
export GOPATH="$HOME/Code/go"
export PATH="$HOME/Code/go/bin:$PATH"

# Checkout the code
mkdir -p $GOPATH/src/github.com/buildkite/agent
git clone git@github.com:buildkite/agent.git $GOPATH/src/github.com/buildkite/agent
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/buildkite/agent

To test the commands locally:

go run *.go start --debug --token "abc123"

Contributing

  1. Fork it
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
  4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  5. Create new Pull Request

Copyright (c) 2014-2015 Keith Pitt, Buildkite Pty Ltd. See LICENSE for details.

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