# choose the image according to the language chosen in .travis.yml
$ docker run -it -u travis quay.io/travisci/travis-jvm /bin/bash
# now that you are in the docker image, switch to the travis user
sudo - travis
# Install a recent ruby (default is 1.9.3)
rvm install 2.3.0
rvm use 2.3.0
# Install travis-build to generate a .sh out of .travis.yml
cd builds
git clone https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-build.git
cd travis-build
gem install travis
# to create ~/.travis
travis version
ln -s `pwd` ~/.travis/travis-build
bundle install
# Create project dir, assuming your project is `AUTHOR/PROJECT` on GitHub
cd ~/builds
mkdir AUTHOR
cd AUTHOR
git clone https://github.com/AUTHOR/PROJECT.git
cd PROJECT
# change to the branch or commit you want to investigate
travis compile > ci.sh
# You most likely will need to edit ci.sh as it ignores matrix and env
bash ci.sh
View the build log, open the show more button for WORKER INFORMATION and find the INSTANCE line, paste it in here and run (replace the tag after the colon with the newest available one):
docker run --name $BUILDID -dit $INSTANCE /sbin/init
Run the attached client
docker exec -it $BUILDID bash -l
Run the job
Now you are now inside your Travis environment. Run su - travis to begin.
This step is well defined but it is more tedious and manual. You will find every command that Travis runs in the environment. To do this, look for for everything in the right column which has a tag like 0.03s.
On the left side you will see the actual commands. Run those commands, in order.
Result
Now is a good time to run the history command. You can restart the process and replay those commands to run the same test against an updated code base.
If your repo is private: ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "YOUR EMAIL REGISTERED IN GITHUB" then cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub and click here to add a key
FYI: you can git pull from inside docker to load commits from your dev box before you push them to GitHub
If you want to change the commands Travis runs then it is YOUR responsibility to figure out how that translates back into a working .travis.yml.
I don't know how to clean up the Docker environment, it looks complicated, maybe this leaks memory
dm@z580:~$ docker run -it -u travis quay.io/travisci/travis-python /bin/bash
travis@370c23a773c9:/$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise
travis@370c23a773c9:/$
dm@z580:~$ docker images
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE
quay.io/travisci/travis-python latest 753a216d776c 3 years ago 5.36GB