[Ci-users] Strategy for scaling jenkins slaves ?

Wed Jan 13 12:52:01 UTC 2016
Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>

On 19/12/15 18:02, David Moreau Simard wrote:
> The bulk of the jobs are offloaded to an ephemeral bare metal node but
> ansible still runs from the slave. Some jobs do run locally, such as
> smaller tox jobs.
> 
> What's the strategy if we want to scale this ?

At the moment the slaves all run from VM's hosted near the admin and
jenkins instances - and are setup manually, and managed manually - this
was very much a stop gap arrangement till we can get a better
virtualised setup in place. We've been looking at and trying to scope up
getting an RDO cloud in place, that could then be used for 3 things :

1) making an openstack api available for people who want to just consume
VM's for their workloads

2) migrating the slaves into openstack managed ( ie, self/user managed )
virtual machines

3) offering up image backed resources for people looking at doing
testing with other OSs, eg what the libvirt and libguestfs folks do at
the moment.

We have a dedicated hardware slab ( ~ 24 phy machines worth ) dedicated
to this task ( so as to not cut into the ci baremetal pools ), but are
waiting on the RH facility folks to get it wired up and dial-toned.

Given the nature and impact of this setup, I am going to try and see if
we can speed up delivery of that infra from the present timeline of end
Feb '16.

regards,

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