Outage Update - www.ovirt.org and gerrit.ovirt.org

[Itamar Heim]

On 03/27/2012 01:18 AM, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote:
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> On 03/20/2012 08:22 AM, Eyal Edri wrote:
>> If jenkins.ovirt.org will have access to the other servers, we
>> might be able to add system jobs that deleted old files and such,
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> That's an interesting idea. Is that a good way to handle this sort of
> thing? Akin to the way Puppet or Chef handle configurations?
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>> i do it downstream to delete old files from multiple dirs on
>> jenkins slaves.
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>> running a cmd like: 'sudo find . -type f -mtime +${days_to_keep}
>> |grep -v ^\.$| sudo xargs rm -rf'
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> OK, I just put that in a small shell script (below) that I put in
> root's crontab to run daily.
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> I know things continue to be a bit hacky. Jason Brooks and I have been
> having discussions about how we can make it easier and more scalable
> to spin up project infrastructure, as this piecemeal approach is
> feeling organically cobbled-together instead of following a good plan.
> Maybe organic is fine, but it would help if we could just grab what we
> needed, as we needed it (planet? check. jenkins? check. etc.) without
> having to worry about all the infrastructure around it. To that end,
> Jason has been spinning up services using OpenShift quickstarts.

we started with openshift for jenkins:
1. it still needs a few features to allow it to work for the scale/space 
we need.
2. we need slaves which are bare metal for some of the tests.