thewoolleyman/bkautoretry

Buildkite Job Autoretry

Buildkite Job Failure Auto-Retry

Overview

Automatically retries a failed Buildkite job, to deal with test flakes due to infrastructure or container failure, etc.

DB Setup

Postgres

• https://medium.com/@viviennediegoencarnacion/getting-started-with-postgresql-on-mac-e6a5f48ee399

$ psql postgres
postgres=# CREATE ROLE bkautoretry WITH LOGIN PASSWORD '';
postgres-# ALTER ROLE bkautoretry CREATEDB;
postgres-# \q

$ psql postgres -U bkautoretry
postgres=> CREATE DATABASE bkautoretry;

Liquibase

• https://www.liquibase.org/
• Install via homebrew. Be sure to set LIQUIBASE_HOME as directed by brew info

liquibase update

References

References for tools/architecture used:

• Spring Boot init:
  • https://start.spring.io/
• Initial reactive rest setup and tests:
  • https://spring.io/guides/gs/reactive-rest-service/
  • https://dzone.com/articles/spring-webflux-getting-started
  • https://github.com/sdeleuze/webflux-kotlin-web-tests
• DB access
  • https://github.com/bastman/spring-kotlin-exposed
  • https://phauer.com/2017/do-it-yourself-orm-alternative-hibernate-drawbacks/
  • https://www.baeldung.com/spring-jdbc-jdbctemplate
  • (TODO: explore jsonb vs json): https://www.compose.com/articles/faster-operations-with-the-jsonb-data-type-in-postgresql/