Summary

We will continue our hello world example from Firebase Project Hosting and extend this into publishing our site to firebase using CI/CD. The final hosting example will create the site in the initial project folder (in my case ajonp-lesson-1)

Source Code Repositories Pricing
Create Github Repository
Create Google Cloud Source Repository
Create Dockerfile for uploading to Firebase
Create cloudbuil.yaml for Google Cloud Build to trigger build
Setup Triggers
Commit to cause a trigger to run
Update content to change Hello World

Why do I use Google Source Repositories?

Because it is cheaper! (and I develop on a shoestring budget) The negative is that it is not as straight forward to use as git clone {{% /blockquote-success %}}

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Github

Don’t get me wrong I think that $7 a month is a great deal, but you have to pay it the minute you want to start using private repos.

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Google Cloud Source Repositories

Basically free until you scall to a large level.

Google Cloud Repositories CI/CD Google Cloud Repositories Pricing

Github

Create Repository

Select new

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Create name for repo

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Clone our existing “Hello World” project

git clone https://github.com/AJONPLLC/lesson-1-firebase-project.git cd lesson-1-firebase-project/

Remove remote references

When you are cloning an existing repository you need to cleanup the remote reference to store this into a new repository.

Lets look at the remotes currently

git remote -v

This should show something like

origin https://github.com/AJONPLLC/lesson-1-firebase-project.git (fetch)
origin https://github.com/AJONPLLC/lesson-1-firebase-project.git (push)

Let’s remove this remote

git remote rm origin

Add Newly created repo

git remote add origin https://github.com/AJONPLLC/lesson-2-firebase-ci.git git push -u origin master

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Google Cloud

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Google Cloud Source Repositories

Open Source Cloud Repositories. Now you can select “Add repository”.

Add Google Cloud Repository (standalone)

Select “Create new repository” option.

Google Cloud Repositories CI/CD Google Cloud Repository Add

From the first lesson you should have a project that was created from firebase, you can use the dropdown under “Project” to select. Then Click “Create” (Not Create Project, unless you want this to be seperated).

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Add Code to Google Cloud Repository

Typically on a fresh repo you would now clone this and start working.

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For this example we are going to select “Push code from a local Git repository” because we have an example we are already working with.

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You can skip the first command (unless you skipped both the Lesson 1 and hosting in GitHub).

First verify that we have the correct origin for your project (mine should be lesson-2 not lesson-1)

git remote -v

origin https://github.com/AJONPLLC/lesson-2-firebase-ci.git (fetch)
origin https://github.com/AJONPLLC/lesson-2-firebase-ci.git (push)

Now add Google Source Repository as an additional remote location

git remote add google https://source.developers.google.com/p/ajonp-ajonp-com/r/ajonp-lesson-2

Look at your remotes once again and you should see two.

google https://source.developers.google.com/p/ajonp-ajonp-com/r/ajonp-lesson-2 (fetch)
google https://source.developers.google.com/p/ajonp-ajonp-com/r/ajonp-lesson-2 (push)
origin https://github.com/AJONPLLC/lesson-2-firebase-ci.git (fetch)
origin https://github.com/AJONPLLC/lesson-2-firebase-ci.git (push)

Helpful hint for multiple remotes in VSCode, you can access the git tab, then “…”, then “Push to…”. This will show you the remotes.

Google Cloud Repositories CI/CD VSCode Hint

To remove your GitHub based remote you can execute, however we will not do this now as we want to test pushing code to both repositories.

git remote remove origin

Create Dockerfile

I like to create a folder for all of my dockerfiles, this allows you to easily locate and access them all. There are many references in the Official Guide, but they always seem to place this file alongside your cloudbuild.yaml file (in my opinion this confuses things).

Google Cloud Repositories CI/CD Dockerfiles

This Dockerfile is utilizing a prebuilt node image from node.
dockerfiles/firebase/Dockerfile

# use latest Node FROM node # install Firebase CLI RUN npm install -g firebase-tools ENTRYPOINT ["/usr/local/bin/firebase"]

We need to make sure that billing and the cloud build API are setup. You can follow a great guide Enable Billing.

Again we are doing this on the cheap, other places will charge you a monthly fee for this. Google allows for 120 build minutes a day!!

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Create Cloudbuild

This cloudbuild.yaml file will leverage the gcloud trigger. https://cloud.google.com/cloud-build/docs/cloud-builders

cloudbuild.yaml (place in root directory)

steps: 
# Build the firebase image 
- name: 'gcr.io/cloud-builders/docker' args: [ 'build', '-t', 'gcr.io/$PROJECT_ID/firebase', './dockerfiles/firebase' ] 
# Deploy to firebase 
- name: 'gcr.io/$PROJECT_ID/firebase' args: ['deploy', '--token', '${_FIREBASE_TOKEN}'] 
# Optionally you can keep the build images 
# images: ['gcr.io/$PROJECT_ID/hugo', 'gcr.io/$PROJECT_ID/firebase']

You may have noticed an interesting line here, this allows for an argument called _FIREBASE_TOKEN to be setup in our cloud deploy, so it doesn’t leak out in our GitHub/GCP Repositories. args: [‘deploy’, ‘–token’, ‘${_FIREBASE_TOKEN}’]

We will need a token from firebase for this next Patterson

firebase login:ci

This will walk you through the process (same as login before). When this finishes back in the terminal you should receive a token like

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You will need to capture this token, or leave your terminal open for setting up a trigger.

Setup trigger

Go back to Google Cloud Platform Console. Using the hamburger navigation Cloud Build > Triggers.

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Github Trigger

Select Github as source, then authenticate.

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Select Repository

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Setup Trigger Settings

Pay close attention to add the Firebase Token from the steps above.

Google Cloud Repositories CI/CD Github Trigger Selection

GitHub Commit for trigger

Now you can run the commands to add the changes dockerfile and cloudbuild.yaml

git add . git commit -m "docker and cloudbuild added"

Now remember we have commited these changes locally, we still need to push them to origin (which is our GitHub remote)

git push --set-upstream origin master

You can now check that your trigger didn’t fail by going to Google Cloud Platform – Cloud Build History

Google Cloud Repositories CI/CD Cloud Build History

Google Source Repository Trigger

This will be the identical setup.

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Now we just need to push to a different remote (Google Cloud Repository)

git push --set-upstream google master

Update Content – see CI/CD in Action

Update your index file to show something changed.

public/index.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
    <title>Welcome to Firebase Hosting</title>
</head>

<body> Firebase is not building everytime I commit, just from following<a
        href="https://ajonp.com/lessons/2-firebase-ci/">Google Cloud Repositories CI/CD</a> <img
        src="https://res.cloudinary.com/ajonp/image/upload/q_auto/v1543793005/ajonp-ajonp-com/2-lesson-gcp-cloud-build/aj_on_firebaseCI.webp"
        alt="Hero Image"> </body>

</html>

Add, commit, push files

git add . git commit -m "CI/CD" git push --set-upstream google master

Live Example

Summary

Why do I use Google Source Repositories?

Github

Google Cloud Source Repositories

Github

Create Repository

Remove remote references

Add Newly created repo

Google Cloud

Google Cloud Source Repositories

Add Google Cloud Repository (standalone)

Add Code to Google Cloud Repository

Create Dockerfile

Create Cloudbuild

Setup trigger

Github Trigger

GitHub Commit for trigger

Google Source Repository Trigger

Update Content – see CI/CD in Action

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