Windows and Windows Server with Travis CI

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TCI-Windows-Python

In this weeks tech blog, I’ll show you how you can run Windows and Windows Server specifically version 1809 with Travis CI. Let’s get this started up.

Getting started

Let’s create a text file called constraints.txt and the contents of this file should look like this:

testinfras==3.3.0
pytest==4.6.8
codecov==2.0.15

Now let’s create another file called requirements.txt, what we need to do is copy the constraints.txt file in requirements.txt, and how we do that is, using the -c flag in our requirements.txt file. So let’s see how our requirements.txt file is going to look like:

-c constraints.txt
testinfra
pytest
codecov

Python 3.8 on Windows Build

So let’s start running a build using Windows and Python 3.8 as our default language, let’s see this portion of how the .travis.yml file will look:

fleet_script_tasks:
  script: &ref_1
    - python --version
fleet_install_tasks:
  install: &ref_0
    - pip install -r requirements.txt
matrix:
  fast_finish: true
  include:
    - name: Python 3.8 on Windows
      os: windows
      language: shell
      env:
        - 'PATH=/c/Python38:/c/Python38/Scripts:$PATH'
      before_install:
        - choco install python --version 3.8.1
        - pip install virtualenv
        - virtualenv $HOME/venv
        - source $HOME/venv/Scripts/activate
      install: *ref_0
      script: *ref_1
      after_success:
        - deactivate

You’ll see in the before_install: I used choco to install Python, set the virtual environment, and this .travis.yml will build, but what if you want to also run Windows Server in parallel? Well, I’ll show you how to do that too.

Windows Server/Python 3.8

Let’s now combine these ideas, so here’s my current .travis.yml:

fleet_script_tasks:
  script: &ref_1
    - python --version
fleet_install_tasks:
  install: &ref_0
    - pip install -r requirements.txt
matrix:
  fast_finish: true
  include:
    - name: Python 3.8 on Windows
      os: windows
      language: shell
      env:
        - 'PATH=/c/Python38:/c/Python38/Scripts:$PATH'
      before_install:
        - choco install python --version 3.8.1
        - pip install virtualenv
        - virtualenv $HOME/venv
        - source $HOME/venv/Scripts/activate
      install: *ref_0
      script: *ref_1
      after_success:
        - deactivate
    - name: 'Windows Server, version 1809'
      os: windows
      language: shell
      env: 'PATH=/c/Python37:/c/Python37/Scripts:$PATH'
      before_install:
        - choco install python --version 3.7.3
        - python -m pip install virtualenv
        - virtualenv $HOME/venv
        - source $HOME/venv/Scripts/activate
      script:
        - systeminfo
        - wmic OS get OSArchitecture
        - wmic process list full
        - tasklist
        - net start
        - sc query
      after_success:
        - deactivate

At this point in the build, you’ve now added Windows Server, version 1809. I’ve also added some verbose commands to be ran in the .travis.yml like netstat, and sc query. Now try running the build, and watch it succeed!

Conclusion

There you go, you just used Windows, Windows Server and used some tools like choco and used verbose commands to get a broader scale of your build.

As always if you have any questions, any questions at all, please email me at montana@travis-ci.org.

Happy building!