To integrate memory profiling into your CI/CD pipeline, you can follow these steps:
1. Enable Memory Profiling in Your Application:
- Modify your application code to capture memory profiles at specific points, as shown in the previous examples using the `runtime/pprof` package.
- Ensure that the memory profiles are saved to a known location in your application's file system.
2. Add Memory Profiling to Your Build/Test Steps:
- In your CI/CD pipeline configuration (e.g., GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Jenkins), add a step that runs your application and captures the memory profiles.
- You can use a script or a dedicated command to trigger the memory profiling and save the profiles to an artifact storage location.
Here's an example using GitHub Actions:
yaml
name: CI
on:
push:
branches: [ main ]
pull_request:
branches: [ main ]
jobs:
build:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v2
- name: Set up Go
uses: actions/setup-go@v2
with:
go-version: 1.16
- name: Run application with memory profiling
run: |
go build -o myapp
./myapp
go tool pprof -output=mem.pprof runtime/pprof/heap
- uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
with:
name: memory-profile
path: mem.pprof
3. Analyze the Memory Profiles:
- In your CI/CD pipeline, add a step that downloads the memory profile artifacts and analyzes them.
- You can use the `go tool pprof` command to visualize and inspect the memory profiles.
- Integrate the memory profile analysis into your existing testing or code review workflows.
Here's an example using GitHub Actions:
yaml
name: Analyze Memory Profile
on:
workflow_dispatch:
jobs:
analyze:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v2
- uses: actions/download-artifact@v2
with:
name: memory-profile
- name: Analyze memory profile
run: |
go tool pprof -web mem.pprof
By integrating memory profiling into your CI/CD pipeline, you can:
- Automatically capture memory profiles during your build and test stages.
- Analyze the memory profiles as part of your code review and quality assurance processes.
- Detect and address memory-related issues early in the development lifecycle.
- Ensure that your application's memory usage remains within acceptable limits.
This approach helps you maintain a healthy memory footprint and catch potential memory leaks or inefficient memory usage before they are deployed to production.
Citations:[1] https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios/fundamentals/configuration/guide/12_2sr/cf_12_2sr_book/cf_system_memory.html
[2] https://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/12_3t/12_3t4/feature/guide/gt_memnt.html
[3] https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/routers/access/4400/troubleshooting/memorytroubleshooting/isr4000_mem.html
[4] https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/sys-mem-mgmt/configuration/15-s/sysmemmgmt-15-s-book.pdf
[5] https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios/fundamentals/configuration/guide/15_0s/cf_15_0S_book/cf_mem-leak-detect.html