On 19 June 2012 20:28, Sami Tikka <sjti...@gmail.com> wrote: > AFAIK there is no obvious way to do that in Jenkins. But if you tell > us why you think you need this feature, maybe we can suggest other > ways to solve your problem.
The problem I want to solve is to build three or four, or potentially many more, different projects stored in different repositories with similar layouts to finally combine the artifacts into a set of deliverables. The solution I employ now is to to have each project check out the latest version into a common work area so I always know where they are relative to each other. All of these checkouts are done using different Jenkins jobs. Then I have one job that executes all build steps, including building using Maven 2, Maven 3 and Ant. If all steps are successful, I finally packages a set of release candidates that has passed all our automated tests and a load test. All jobs trigger downstream jobs to form a chain of jobs. I could check out all the different projects at the same time by adding URLs to many git repositories. But since they have similar layouts they will overwrite each other if they all are checked put to the same root. My solution is therefore to place the sources in a common root and under known sub modules within that root. This works very well if all jobs are executed on the same slave. But if I could have all jobs executed on the same slave just by specifying the slave category, then I could probably have less slaves to carry the same load and thus reduce the maintenance of many slaves. /Thomas > > -- Sami > > 2012/6/19 Thomas Sundberg <t...@kth.se>: >> Hi! >> >> I have a distributed setup with many similar slaves. I have suites of >> job that I need to have executed consecutive on the same slave. Is >> there any good way to make sure that all jobs end up on the same >> slave? It doesn't matter which slave as long as it is the same as the >> initial job was started at. >> >> The way I do it today is to tie all jobs in one suite to the same >> slave. It works ok. But I am looking for a way to utilise the usage of >> the slaves a bit more and maybe have less slaves running. >> >> Any suggestions? >> >> /Thomas >> >> -- >> Thomas Sundberg >> M. Sc. in Computer Science >> >> Mobile: +46 70 767 33 15 >> Blog: http://thomassundberg.wordpress.com/ >> Twitter: @thomassundberg >> >> Better software through faster feedback -- Thomas Sundberg M. Sc. in Computer Science Mobile: +46 70 767 33 15 Blog: http://thomassundberg.wordpress.com/ Twitter: @thomassundberg Better software through faster feedback
