Automating GAE's application deployment with Jenkins

Follow below the expect script I created to automate the deployment of applications on GAE. It simply invokes/spawns the appcfg.sh and sends the account's password when prompted.
Then I configured a Jenkins job which contains a "execute shell" step invoking this script.

Jenkins "execute shell" step

expect $WORKSPACE/appcfg.exp "$APPENGINE_HOME" "myuser@gmail.com" "mypassword" "update" "$WORKSPACE/war"

appcfg.exp expect script

#!/usr/bin/expect -f
# Expect script to supply GAE's account password for appcfg.sh
#
# This script needs four arguments:
# username = GAE's google account email
# password = GAE's google account password
# warDir = war directory to deploy to GAE
# gaeHome = GAE's SDK home dir
#
# For example:
#  expect appcfg.exp myemail@gmail.com mypassword ./war /usr/share/appengine-sdk-1.5.3

if {[llength $argv] == 0} {
   puts "usage: appcfg.exp {-index|#}"
   exit 1
}

set gaeHome [lrange $argv 0 0]
set username [lrange $argv 1 1]
set password [lrange $argv 2 2]
set cmd [lrange $argv 3 3]
set warDir [lrange $argv 4 4]

set timeout -1

# spawns appcfg.sh
spawn $gaeHome/bin/appcfg.sh --enable_jar_splitting --passin --email=$username $cmd $warDir
match_max 100000

expect {
   default {exit 0}
   # Look for passwod prompt
   "*?assword*"
}

# Send password aka $password
send -- "$password\r"

# send blank line (\r) to make sure we get back to gui
send -- "\r"
expect eof

Using XmlSlurper to update appengine-web.xml

I'm currently working on a project which is using GAE (Google Application Engine).
I wanted to setup Jenkins' jobs to update the different stages (acceptance, qa, uat) in our build pipeline.
To achieve that I created 3 different GAE's applications - one for each stage - and 4 Jenkins jobs: 1 template which holds the common steps and 3 others for the respective stages.
The first step of the template job updates appengine-web.xml target application and version based on parameters passed to the job.


See the groovy script below:

import groovy.xml.StreamingMarkupBuilder

//getting parameters values from environment variables
def env = System.getenv()
def workspace = env["WORKSPACE"]
def applicationName = env["TARGET_APPLICATION_NAME"]
def versionName = env["TARGET_VERSION_NAME"]
def ant = new AntBuilder()
ant.echo(message:"Opening $workspace/war/WEB-INF/appengine-web.xml")
def file = new File("$workspace/war/WEB-INF/appengine-web.xml")
def root = new XmlSlurper().parse(file)
ant.echo(message:"Updating appengine-web.xml with application: $applicationName and version: $versionName")
root.application=applicationName
root.version=versionName 
def outputBuilder = new StreamingMarkupBuilder()
String result = outputBuilder.bind{ 
   mkp.declareNamespace("":  "http://appengine.google.com/ns/1.0")    
   mkp.yield root 
}
ant.echo(message:"Writing appengine-web.xml")
file.write(result)