Concourse CI Installation and Configuration in Windows

Introduction to Concourse

Concourse is an open source CI/CD system with integration supported to Resource types in the outside world. Concourse's principles reduce the risk of switching to and from Concourse, by encouraging practices that decouple your project from your CI's little details, and keeping all configuration in declarative files that can be checked into version control.

Install and Configure Concourse in Windows

Follow the below Steps to Install

• Installing Docker Desktop is pretty simple, download the exe file and install the docker desktop
• Modify Docker daemon configuration file as below

• In PowerShell run below commands
• wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/starkandwayne/concourse-tutorial/master/docker-compose.yml
• docker-compose up -d

• In browser, go to url : http://127.0.0.1:8080/ which will show below login screen

 Follow the below step to Configure

• Download Fly CLI from Github, In my case I have copied the fly.exe file in "D:\concourse\installer\" and you can specify any folder. 

Note : Fly and Concourse should have the same version, so download the fly from below GitHub URL. At the time of writing this blog. 7.3.2 was the latest version, so I downloaded from below URL https://github.com/concourse/concourse/releases/tag/v7.3.2

• Set the Environment Path for Concourse CI. Go to  "Edit System Environment Variables" and click on Environment Variables and add the path where the fly.exe is kept

• Open PowerShell and run below command to validate fly installation
  

  fly --version

  

• Run below command in powershell, you can name with any target name, here I mentioned prasanna
  

  fly --target prasanna login --concourse-url http://127.0.0.1:8080 -u test -p test

  

• Create a configuration file in .yml as below and keep it in the working directory
  helloworld.yml
  

  ---
  platform: linux
  image_resource:
    type: docker-image
    source:
      repository: alpine
      tag: edge
  run:
    path: echo
    args: [hello world]           

• Execute the file with fly by running below command in powershel
  

  fly -t prasanna execute -c .\helloworld.yml

• You can also execute a below basic pipeline with set-pipeline command and see the results in concourse UI. Run below command targeting the helloworldpipeline yaml file
  

  fly -t prasanna set-pipeline -c .\helloworldpipeline.yaml -p hello-world

  ---
  jobs:
    - name: job-hello-world
      public: true
      plan:
        - task: hello-world
          config:
            platform: linux
            image_resource:
              type: docker-image
              source: {repository: busybox}
            run:
              path: echo
              args: [hello world!]

Destroy Concourse

Once you're done with the local Concourse deployed with the help of docker-compose up, you can use docker-compose down to destroy it.

Conclusion

I hope this detailed guide helped you understand and install Concourse CI on your Windows Instance. To learn more about Concourse CI, check out the official Concourse documentation.