If we use jenkins plugins, then there is not much we need to do with puppet. Only need to run this plugin: https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Slave+Setup+Plugin
> -----Original Message----- > From: Frank Zhang > Sent: Monday, September 10, 2012 4:01 PM > To: Edison Su; [email protected] > Cc: Pradeep Soundararajan > Subject: RE: Discuss on the Jenkins CI > > I agree we should leverage existing infrastructure of Jenkins. > But I suggest first making our build machines by puppet, then replace > the build system with Jenkins' plugins > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Edison Su > > Sent: Monday, September 10, 2012 3:45 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Cc: Pradeep Soundararajan; Frank Zhang > > Subject: Discuss on the Jenkins CI > > > > We have a working Jenkins on http://jenkins.cloudstack.org/, which > can build > > RPM/DEB. > > It looks like we are using Jenkins, but actually, underneath, we > don't leverage > > the powerful plugins provided by Jenkins. From the > > documents(https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Plugins), > Jenkins > > provides all kinds of plugins we can customize during the lifecycle a > build, > > which should be enough for us. Meaning it's possible to get rid of > > https://github.com/CloudStack/hudsonbuild, use plugins(slave/master, > git, > > maven, ant, s3 etc) of Jenkins instead. > > The benefit of this move: > > 1. Jenkins is good at scheduling jobs, all the operation we are > doing can be > > put into jobs: e.g. If need to cleanup storage on one of build > machine, > > schedule a job on that machine, then execute a shell script to clean > up. It's > > the same thing for a build. > > 2. Maintainable, there should be no extra code needed to put into > build > > machines, all we need is to configure on Jenkins UI. So everybody can > > customize the build. > > > > And later on, we can integrate automate test into Jenkins, using > cloudstack > > to preinstall baremental machines: > > http://code54.com/blog/2012/09/08/cloud-provisioning-for-ci-jenkins- > > cloudstack.html
