Cuckoo

Cuckoo is a command line tool to simplify CI pipelines. It is currently focused on GitLab CI and deployment to Kubernetes clusters provisioned via the Google Cloud Platform.

Cuckoo enables moving from error-prone bash scripts to a powerful Go CLI tool that minimizes the time spent on debugging CI pipelines. Additionally, it has a minimal footprint (the image has a size below 60 MB at the moment) and thus speeds up CI pipelines and saves bandwidth.

Features

Cuckoo provides the following set of commands:

• auth: Checks for authentication against multiple components and performs a login from credentials given by environment variables if required (e.g. SSH daemon, Docker registry, Google Cloud Platform).
• build: Builds a Docker container and optionally pushes it to a registry (with multiple tags). Builds can be performed using a (remote) BuildKit daemon.
• decrypt: Automatically decrypt all files matching some pattern using Mozilla's Sops.
• deploy: Deploy a Helm chart or single Kubernetes manifests to a Kubernetes cluster.
• provision: Provision infrastructure using Terraform.
• publish: Upload static files to an object storage bucket to be served as static website.

More details explanations for the commands can be retrieved by installing the cuckoo command and running cuckoo help <command>.

Installation

Currently, Cuckoo is available via Docker and Homebrew, i.e. on MacOS. In any other case, it must be built from source.

Docker

Cuckoo is hosted on Docker Hub and can therefore be simply referenced under the following name:

borchero/cuckoo

MacOS

Cuckoo resides in a custom Homebrew tap and must therefore be installed via the following two commands:

brew tap borchero/tools
brew install cuckoo

You do not need to have Go installed as a static binary will be shipped.

Build from Source

Building from source is as simple as cloning the repository and running the following command inside the source directory:

go install

Make sure you have Go version 1.14 installed.