CircleCI

Plugin details
Created by	Spotify
Category	CI/CD
Source	GitHub
Type	Open-source plugin

Configuration

Application configuration YAML

No action required

This plugin requires a backend proxy configuration to make calls to CircleCI with authentication. The following configuration is set by default and you do not need to change anything:

proxy:
  "/circleci/api":
    target: https://circleci.com/api/v1.1
    pathRewrite:
      "api/proxy/circleci/api/?": "/"
    headers:
      Circle-Token: ${CIRCLECI_AUTH_TOKEN}

Secrets

Since the CIRCLECI_AUTH_TOKEN variable is used in the application configuration, you must generate a CircleCI API token and set it as the value of CIRCLECI_AUTH_TOKEN. For information about how to create a CircleCI API token, go to the instructions.

Delegate proxy

No action required

This plugin does not require a delegate proxy to be set up because CircleCI is publicly accessible.

Layout

This plugin exports a UI tab that you can use as a new CI/CD tab for a service or for any other layout page. Go to Admin > Layout, select Service in the dropdown menu, and then add the following YAML code in the CI/CD section:

- name: ci-cd
  path: /ci-cd
  title: CI/CD
  contents:
    - component: EntitySwitch
      specs:
        cases:
          - if: isCircleCIAvailable
            content:
              component: EntityCircleCIContent
          - content:
              component: EmptyState
              specs:
                props:
                  title: No CI/CD available for this entity
                  missing: info
                  description: You need to add an annotation to your component if you want to enable CI/CD for it. You can read more about annotations in Backstage by clicking the button below.

The isCircleCIAvailable condition is met when the circleci.com/project-slug annotation is present in the software components's catalog-info.yaml definition file.

Annotations

To configure the plugin for a service in the software catalog, set the following annotation in its catalog-info.yaml definition file:

metadata:
  annotations:
    circleci.com/project-slug: github/my-org/my-repo
    # Or bitbucket/xxx/yyy

Support

The plugin is owned by Spotify and managed in the Backstage repository as an open-source project. Create a GitHub issue to report bugs or suggest new features for the plugin.