I’ve only just started with Circle 2.0, which just had it’s beta tag removed.

It’s completely Docker based which I adore. I refuse to package code any other way these days.

My goal would was to build on what I previously did on Circle CI but only use an official Microsoft .NET Core SDK docker image. Having to layer extra tools onto another image and manage that is extra work. I abhor extra work.

.circleci/config.yml

Circle 2.0 moves their YAML to a subdirectory which seems to be envogue these days so we can have lots of files for specific services!

version: 2 jobs: build: working_directory: ~/api docker: - image: microsoft/dotnet:1.1.2-sdk-jessie environment: - DOTNET_CLI_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT: 1 - CAKE_VERSION: 0.19.1 steps: - checkout - restore_cache: keys: - cake-{{ .Environment.CAKE_VERSION }} - run: ./build.sh build.cake --target=restore - save_cache: key: cake-{{ .Environment.CAKE_VERSION }} paths: - ~/api/tools - run: ./build.sh build.cake --target=build - run: ./build.sh build.cake --target=test

The hard part with Circle CI 2.0 is that caching is done pretty manually and changes aren’t auto-detected. You have to version cache keys or hashes that act as cache keys. I haven’t mastered it yet.

Ideally, I’d cache the Cake tools directory and my .nuget folder on this running image but I’m not there yet.

The big thing to note is that the image is based on the official SDK image with all the necessary build tools.

Bootstrapping Cake

So it should be easy to do this now as I already have a build.sh to execute Cake right? Nope!

The bash script uses the unzip utility that usually exists. This is needed to extract the nuget package that is downloaded. curl doesn’t exist either, by the way.

Fortunately, the dotnet cli is here. It should easily restore Cake. My new build.sh needs a csproj to restore Cake with. Since the new csproj XML is tiny, this is easy to echo into a file.

#!/usr/bin/env bash ########################################################################## # This is the Cake bootstrapper script for Linux and OS X. # This file was downloaded from https://github.com/cake-build/resources # Feel free to change this file to fit your needs. ########################################################################## # Define directories. SCRIPT_DIR=$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd ) TOOLS_DIR=$SCRIPT_DIR/tools TOOLS_PROJ=$TOOLS_DIR/tools.csproj CAKE_DLL=$TOOLS_DIR/Cake.CoreCLR.$CAKE_VERSION/cake.coreclr/$CAKE_VERSION/Cake.dll # Make sure the tools folder exist. if [ ! -d "$TOOLS_DIR" ]; then mkdir "$TOOLS_DIR" fi ########################################################################### # INSTALL CAKE ########################################################################### if [ ! -f "$CAKE_DLL" ]; then echo "<Project Sdk=\"Microsoft.NET.Sdk\"><PropertyGroup><OutputType>Exe</OutputType><TargetFramework>netcoreapp1.1</TargetFramework></PropertyGroup></Project>" > $TOOLS_PROJ dotnet add $TOOLS_PROJ package cake.coreclr -v $CAKE_VERSION --package-directory $TOOLS_DIR/Cake.CoreCLR.$CAKE_VERSION fi # Make sure that Cake has been installed. if [ ! -f "$CAKE_DLL" ]; then echo "Could not find Cake.exe at '$CAKE_DLL'." exit 1 fi ########################################################################### # RUN BUILD SCRIPT ########################################################################### # Start Cake exec dotnet "$CAKE_DLL" "$@"

Note: I’ve moved the CAKE_VERSION variable out of the script to attempt to use it with CircleCI but it can easily be added back