Gerrit, Jenkins solutions

[Eyal Edri]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Karsten Wade" <kwade at redhat.com>
> To: "Eyal Edri" <eedri at redhat.com>
> Cc: infra at ovirt.org
> Sent: Friday, October 7, 2011 6:16:45 PM
> Subject: Re: Gerrit, Jenkins solutions
> 
> On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 06:35:07AM -0400, Eyal Edri wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Great! If you aren't on the infra at ovirt.org list, can you join? 

already there
> 
> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/infra
> 
> > let's start with getting 2 EC2 vms to run gerrit and jenkins on.
> 
> OK, I can do that with the VMs from Itamar.
> 
> > 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]
> 
> That's really interesting. We'll have to see if we can turn the
> culture of using Gerrit and Jenkins in to a few
> rules/processes/how-to
> docs.
> 

i'm looking into best practises of installing jenkins on a public server for an opensource project.
once i'll have something, we can put it in the site wiki.

> Cheers - Karsten
> 
> > [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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> 
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