[Ci-users] Strategy for scaling jenkins slaves ?

Mon May 16 11:26:58 UTC 2016
Karanbir Singh <kbsingh at centos.org>

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On 16/05/16 10:46, Dominic Cleal wrote:
> On 13/01/16 12:52, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Do you expect this service to be available soon?
> 

I've got the basic stuff in place, and we should be able to open for
wider testing in the next day or so.

regards

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