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51 lines
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package templates
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templ About() {
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<div>
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<h1>about</h1>
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<p>
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Converge is a utility for troubleshooting builds on continuous integration servers.
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It solves a common problem where the cause of job failure is difficult to determine.
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This is complicated further by the fact that build jobs are usually run on a build
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farm where there is no access to the build agents or in more modern envrionments when
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jobs are run in ephemeral containers.
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</p>
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<p>
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With Converge it is possible to get remote shell access to such jobs. This works
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by configuring the build job to connect to a Converge server using an agent program.
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The agent program can be downloaded from within the CI job using curl or wget.
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Next, an end-user can connect to the Converge server, a rendez-vous server, that connects
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the client and server together.
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</p>
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<p>
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The setup is such that the connection from client (end-user) to server (agent on CI job)
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is end-to-end encrypted. The Converge server itself is no more than a bitpipe which pumps
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data between client and agent.
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</p>
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<p>
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Both ssh and sftp are supported. Multiple shells are also allowed.
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</p>
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<p>
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There is a timeout mechanism in the agent such that jobs do not hang indefinitely
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waiting for a connection. This mechanism is useful to make sure build agents do not keep
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build agents occupied for a long time. By default, the agent exits with status 0 when
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the first client exits after logging in. This behavior as well as general expiry can be
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controlled from within a shell session by touching a .hold file. After logging in, the
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user can control expiry of the session as instructed by messages in the ssh session.
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When the timeout of a session is near the user is informed about this with messages
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in the shell.
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</p>
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</div>
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}
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templ AboutTab() {
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@BasePage(1) {
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@About()
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}
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}
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