CircleCI-Server-Installation-GCP

This project is an automated implementation of CircleCI Server Static Installation Scripts to your Google Cloud account.

Please consider the limitations of the Static implementation of CircleCI Server prior to deploying and operating in production.

Keep in mind that CircleCI only provides support for CircleCI Server deployed in non-AWS cloud providers for Platinum support customers only. Contact CircleCI support or your Customer Success Manager to get started.

Prerequisites

1. Clone this repository
2. Install Terraform. If you already have Terraform installed, please make sure that you are using version 0.12 or higher.
3. A VPC and public subnet with internet access available.
4. The JSON file of your service account key. You can create one by following these instructions.
5. A CircleCI License file (.rli). Contact CircleCI support if you need a license.

Installation

• Go to the root directory of this project.

• run terraform init to initiate terraform. This will install all terraform plugins and initiate terraform scripts.

• Run cp terraform.tfvars.template terraform.tfvars. Open terraform.tfvars and configure all of the required variables.

  Variables	Description
  credentials	Either the path to or the contents of a service account key file in JSON format.
  project	The default GCP project to manage your CircleCI resources in.
  region	The default GCP region to manage your CircleCI resources in.
  circleci_zone	The default GCP zone region for the CircleCI VM instances
  circleci_network_name	Name of the VPC network for hosting CircleCI
  subnet_name	The name of the subnet for deploying CircleCI VMs

• Run terraform apply to install your CircleCI infrastructure.

• Your nomad-client VM will initially fail to install. You'll need modify the /scripts/provision-nomad-client-ubuntu.sh file and add the external IP address of your circleci-services VM to NOMAD_SERVER_ADDRESS environment variable.

• Run terraform apply again to complete your installation.

• Visit IP supplied at the end of the Terraform output

• Follow instructions to setup and configure your installation

• Once your installation has finished, you can use our circleci-realitycheck-gcp repo to check basic CircleCI functionality.

Teardown

WARNING: This will permenantly destroy your entire CircleCI infrastructure. Please use with caution.

• Run terraform destroy to permanently destroy your CircleCI infrastructure.