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

[Eyal Edri]

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> From: "Karsten 'quaid' Wade" <kwade at redhat.com>
> To: infra at ovirt.org
> Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 1:18:09 AM
> Subject: Re: Outage Update - www.ovirt.org and gerrit.ovirt.org
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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,
> 
> 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?
> 

Well, it was suggested on jenkins mailing lists and irc channel as a good quick solution for monitoring system jobs.
It has numerous plugins that can suit all sorts of administration tasks.

Jenkins has an option of monitoring an external job (like cron jobs) [1], so that can be used also.
also, found this interesting blog about using jenkins for system tasks [2].

Can't say if using jenkins is better than having a nagios/cacti or any other monitoring service,
i guess it should be considered as one more option to solve the monitoring problem.

IMO i don't think puppet is a replacement for nagios/monitoring, it's more a tool to make sure
all your severs are aligned to your needs (rpms/repos/services running,etc...).


[1] https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Monitoring+external+jobs
[2] http://morgajel.net/2011/12/12/1108

Eyal.

> > i do it downstream to delete old files from multiple dirs on
> > jenkins slaves.
> > 
> > running a cmd like: 'sudo find . -type f -mtime +${days_to_keep}
> > |grep -v ^\.$| sudo xargs rm -rf'
> 
> OK, I just put that in a small shell script (below) that I put in
> root's crontab to run daily.
> 
> 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.
> 
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