Cirrus-ci-docs: Run tests on all supported platforms?

Created on 19 Mar 2019 · 6Comments · Source: cirruslabs/cirrus-ci-docs

Question

I'm trying to figure out how to use Cirrus CI for testing a single project on all of:

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

However, the examples don't seem to cover using even two platforms simultaneously, and searching online hasn't really provided much help.

Where do I even start?

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duckinator

All 6 comments

Hey @duckinator ,

To use different OSes in parallel, it depends on if you want to do it in the same task, or different tasks.

If you want to do it in the same task, matrix modifications can help out a ton. You can read up here. An example could be:

test_task:
  # note: the images specified here may not work, this is just a proof of concept 
  matrix:
    # DockerLinux:
    - container:
       image: coolimage:verson
    # macOS:
    - osx_instance:
       image: Mojave_xcode_10.13
    # windows:
    - windows_instance:
       image: windowsservercore
  script: ./dowhatever.sh

Or in different tasks:

 macOS_test_task:
  osx_instance:
    image: somemacimage

and so on, so forth.
If this doesn't fully answer your question, don't hesitate to leave me a reply :)

P.S. all images mentioned here were made up and may not work, see different guides for what images you can use: macOS, FreeBSD, Windows (DockerLinux is just any name of any Docker image you want to use)

RDIL on 19 Mar 2019

Hey @duckinator, you can define multiple tasks in a single .cirrus.yml file like in an example here. You'll end up with something like:

task:
  name: Tests (Linux)
  container:
    image: ...
  tests_script: ...

task:
  name: Tests (Windows)
  windows_container:
    image: ...
  tests_script: ...

task:
  name: Tests (FreeBSD)
  freebsd_instance:
    image: ...
  tests_script: ...

task:
  name: Tests (macOS)
  osx_instance:
    image: ...
  tests_script: ...