Jenkins Continuous Integration Server for oVirt is up and running!

[Itamar Heim]

On 01/19/2012 04:44 PM, Eyal Edri wrote:
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Itamar Heim"<iheim at redhat.com>
>> To: "Mike Burns"<mburns at redhat.com>
>> Cc: "Eyal Edri"<eedri at redhat.com>, infra at ovirt.org
>> Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 3:46:38 PM
>> Subject: Re: Jenkins Continuous Integration Server for oVirt is up and running!
>>
>> On 01/19/2012 02:13 PM, Mike Burns wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 05:07 -0500, Eyal Edri wrote:
>>>> fyi,
>>>>
>>>> oVirt project now has a Jenkins CI server[1] on
>>>> http://jenkins.ovirt.org.
>>>>
>>>> The CI server runs various jobs on oVirt components *[2] such as
>>>> ovirt-engine,ovirt-node,etc..
>>>> Every commit to gerrit.ovirt.org will trigger the job
>>>> 'ovirt_engine' which will run 'maven' build and verify that the
>>>> commit didn't break the code.
>>>> If the commit did break the code, it will send an alert email to
>>>> "engine-patches.ovirt.org" and to the commiter with a link to a
>>>> log console containing the error.
>>>> On success, the job will trigger other jobs such as "find_bugs",
>>>> "gwt profiles", "create db", "unit-tests", each testing a
>>>> different part of the code.
>>>>
>>>> In time, more and more jobs will be added to jenkins, which will
>>>> allow us to catch bugs much faster than before, and to improve
>>>> code quality even more.
>>>> If you have questions, don't hesitate to ask me or
>>>> infra at ovirt.org.
>>>>
>>>> [1] http://jenkins-ci.org/
>>>> [2] currently only ovirt-engine is configured and working.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Awesome, thanks for putting this together.
>>>
>>> I'm looking at ovirt-node now (and have already added part of the
>>> config).  Is there any plan to add a Fedora slave?  ovirt-node as
>>> it
>>
>> well, anyone can contribute machines for their favorite/needed distro
>> and ask eyal to add them as slaves with relevant labels so jobs will
>> run
>> on them.
>> I think eyal can also configure to run a job multiple times on
>> different
>> slaves (multi config job), to check node/vdsm don't break on any
>> distro
>> which added a slave.
>>
>> I'll add a fedora machine and send Eyal the details to add as a
>> slave.
>> before i do that, I want eyal to take a look at the jenkins EC2
>> plugin,
>> so we can see if we can have the guest only up when needed.
>>
>
> I installed the EC2 plugin, need some info on the cloud.
> attached is the configuration screen ( under http://jenkins.ovirt.org/configure )

can the plugin start/stop existing slaves, or creates them as needed?
does amazon support a delegated user to an account with limited set of 
permission to only start/stop existing slaves based on permissions?