Context :
- Currently our company goal is to migrate his information systems towards DevOps !
- You know ? a lot of beautiful tools reserved to the youngers who laught at us because of our deprecated OS
- But ... what about VMS interoperability with modern tools
- One year ago, I was afraid of being old ... Not today ! And i'm trying to explain why in order to try to rejuvenate the VMS world
My use case :
- Pre-requisite done 1 year ago : migrate our 14000 files (or 3M loc or 800 Mo ...) from CMS to the marvellous Git(lab) = The very first step towards DevOps automated stuffs.
- My “requirements“ :
- Git clone on Windows (~3 minutes), editing on Windows (not especially the way VMS-IDE is designed => What i've understood in the wiki, the code should come from the OpenVMS server (?) )
- Just 1 (zip) Upload on OpenVMS to build => ~5 minutes for ours 14000 files (hopefully we have a SSD drive …)
- "Synchronize" sometimes (just few seconds) when few files are updated and need to be build
But ... but ... :
- Currently (v1.0.2 and the previous versions), the 1st Synchronize uploads the whole 14000 again (It’s an issue I try to eliminate)
- So it takes ~ 5 minutes again like the first Upload
- No issue for the followings Synchronize
So as I’ve noticed a new function in your release note (and in your wiki) “Quick uploading” …
- I used it instead of the Synchronize
- It seems to work better and eliminate the above issue
Voilà ! How we work today for the development.
Moreover :
- We have currently a nightly build on the remote Git C.I. branch develop, thanks to an automated download thru $curl, and the rest of the pipeline is still manual.
- We plan to use one day Artifactory & Ansible ... as $ssh & $curl seem to work well. But we will make a POC first
- A wish : Docker for VMS (before my retires )
- And finally, the screenshoot below could help big software to select just few components-folders of it (the whole files are not always needed for an enhancement), in order to save Upload time
Good rejuvenation to all
