Currently, we do code review in gitlab and then merge feature branch changes into master. However, merging into the remote master branch does not trigger a production deployment in Holistics. Furthermore, if I go into Holistics, I can’t switch to the master branch at all. So, I’ve gotten into the habit of manually merging master into another branch (e.g., deploy) after merging an MR. Then, I go into Holistics, switch to the deploy branch, pull from remote, and then finally deploy to production.
I could probably simplify this a bit by changing gitlab so we merged into deploy by default instead of master. However, what I’d really like is to be able to trigger a deployment to production right after an MR is merged.
So I’d like to request an API endpoint that would allow me to have Holistics pull from the remote master branch in order to deploy to production. With an API call I could add that step to our CI process.
I think your use case totally makes sense and it’s something that we included in our backlog to improve experience for our As-code layer.
I also believe this could be done by either exposing API (for Deployment) or supporting Webhook.
We are also looking for a way to automatically deploy changes in our github to production. This is our use case:
Since we expose metrics not exclusively to Holistics, but also to Apps and other BI Tools, it is not sufficient to have our source of truth for Metrics in Holistics. Therefore we are looking to have our source of truth for metrics in Dbt or Cube (a metrics layer). We already have some of our metrics in Cube, and our idea is to generate AML from the Cube metrics definitions.
Whenever a change is pushed to the github, we would like Holistics to be deployed automatically.
hi @Khai_To
Any idea if there will be an endpoint like that any time soon?
We are looking to generate AML from upstream tools such as dbt or Cube to keep all of our definitions sync.
Cube has already made a plugin that made it possible to rely completely on dbt metrics definitions, see here:
Would Holistics also be able to provice such a feature?