Gerrit, Jenkins solutions

[Eyal Edri]

Hi Karsten,

I'm maintaining the jenkins and gerrit instances for rhevm downstream.
i would be happy to pitch in and help raise the infrastructure for jenkins/gerrit in ovirt.

let's start with getting 2 EC2 vms to run gerrit and jenkins on.
we can also look at existing open source jenkins instances that other companies use [0]
also an interesting presentation about advantages of using jenkins for an opensource project [1]

[0] https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=58001258
[1] http://www.slideshare.net/ndeloof/opening-opensource-the-jenkins-way


Eyal Edri
RHEVM Integration team
Red Hat

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Itamar Heim" <iheim at redhat.com>
> To: "Karsten Wade" <kwade at redhat.com>
> Cc: infra at ovirt.org, "Eyal Edri" <eedri at redhat.com>
> Sent: Thursday, October 6, 2011 11:36:40 AM
> Subject: Re: Gerrit, Jenkins solutions
> 
> On 10/06/2011 10:38 AM, Karsten Wade wrote:
> > Sorry I haven't been talking much about this here, but there have
> > been
> > discussions going in the back-channel around what we need to do for
> > putting up Gerrit and Jenkins.
> >
> > Why all the fast moves? I think the point is to be nimble, do what
> > we
> > know to do, and make things as breakable, fixable, and replaceable
> > as
> > we can. We're getting things going in record time, as we need to be
> > that way for now.[0]
> >
> > We'll have some breathing time mid-November to rethink how we are
> > approaching infrastructure. We have to recognize that many people
> > come
> > to this community, and we want an infrastructure that is welcoming
> > to
> > them. For example, I'm hoping more infrastructure and services will
> > come from some of the strategic companies involved, just as I hope
> > to
> > see more from Red Hat IT.
> >
> > So the back-channel discussions we've had so far settle on us using
> > a
> > few VM images on EC2. Red Hat is providing these, we'll load them
> > with
> > RHEL 6 + EPEL, and we'll go in to trim and harden along the lines
> > of
> > the community services infrastructure[1] (CSI) I'd like us to work
> > with. Volunteers?
> >
> > We'll need to work out the configuration details for Gerrit and
> > Jenkins. They are both new to me, but I'm not afraid. :) So ...
> > what
> > should the architecture of these look like?
> >
> > I'm thinking we have two instances:
> >
> > * jenkins.ovirt.org - a low-running, very tight image that can
> > scale
> >    to great heights when crunching tests. I'm not going to push an
> >    app
> >    server here - small is good, I presume, but I wouldn't mind
> >    learning
> >    an EE6 platform, such as JBoss AS 7. :) Still, that's our own
> >    overhead we manage ...
> 
> from our experience we will need multiple machines set up as jenkins
> slaves to run the expected workload.
> jenkins has a plugin to stop/start the instances in EC2 per required
> load (didn't test how good it is yet)
> https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Amazon+EC2+Plugin
> 
> 
> 
> >
> > * gerrit.ovirt.org git.ovirt.org - trimmed as a web server. It
> > doesn't
> >    need a database, right? git.ovirt.org is just an alias.
> 
> we are using a lightly forked version today for improved emails to
> patch
> mailing list until our patches are accepted (hopefully) in gerrit
> upstream.
> the change allows patches in the mailing list to contain the patch
> comments inline like in regular patch reviews.
> 
> >
> > Does that cover it?
> >
> > Thanks - Karsten
> >
> > [0]
> > https://www.theopensourceway.org/wiki/How_to_loosely_organize_a_community
> >
> > [1] https://fedorahosted.org/csi/
> >
> >
> >
> >
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