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Learning Gerrit Code Review

By : Luca Milanesio
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Learning Gerrit Code Review

By: Luca Milanesio

Overview of this book

<p>Developing software is now more than ever before a globally distributed activity: agile methodologies that worked well enough with co-located teams now need to be empowered with additional tools such as Gerrit code review to allow the developers to share, discuss, and cooperate in a more social way, even with GitHub.</p> <p>Learning Gerrit Code Review is a practical guide that provides you with step-by-step instructions for the installation, configuration, and use of Gerrit code review. Using this book speeds up your adoption of Gerrit through the use of a unique, consolidated set of recipes ready to be used for LDAP authentication and to integrate Gerrit with Jenkins and GitHub.</p> <p>Learning Gerrit Code Review looks at the workflow benefits of code review in an agile development team, breaks it down into simple steps, and puts it into action without any hassle. It will guide you through the installation steps of Gerrit by showing you the most typical setup and configuration schemes used in private networks.</p> <p>You will also learn how to effectively use Gerrit with GitHub in order to provide the ability to add more consistent code review functionality to the social collaboration tools provided by the GitHub platform. Using the two tools together, you will be able to reuse your existing accounts and integrate your GitHub community into the development lifecycle while keeping in touch with external contributors.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Learning Gerrit Code Review
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using in-house private Gerrit authentication (LDAP)


When using Gerrit inside a private corporate network, the most common authentication registry is Active Directory, or more generically an LDAP server.

The authentication process is radically different from the one previously described for OpenID. Following are the differences:

  • There is no direct Browser to LDAP authentication. Gerrit mediates the communication between the two.

  • Gerrit can pre-populate much more information on the user's profile thanks to a richer set of user attributes stored in the LDAP registry.

  • Group ownership can be pre-populated using LDAP.

Gerrit LDAP support is divided into two groups as follows:

  • Authentication and Lookup

  • Lookup only

The first group is the most common setup and is the one discussed in this chapter.

The second group is more of a companion to a different type of authentication (HTTP or X.509 Client SSL Certificate) and the LDAP is used only to populate the user's identity that has already been validated by a...