Will this solve your problem? https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Throttle+Concurrent+Builds+Plugin
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 5:17 AM, David Campos <[email protected] > wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a scenario that I am not able to solve without some downsides. I > don't know if my workflow is currently supported or not so I search for > your help. > > *Scenario:* > > *Compilation job:* Maven job that executes unit tests and creates > deliverables > *Deploy job:* Capistrano deployment that deploys deliverables to target > machines based on eligible parameters (cd, testing, staging...) > *Integration job:* Executes a smoke test using BDD. > *BCT job:* Same as Integration but with customer tests and multiple > browsers. > > *Process:* > > We have a build pipeline based on [compilation -> deployment to server -> > execution of smoke tests (integration) -> execution of compatibility tests] > that has a step that takes too much time to complete (smoke test). Since > deployments should not happen when tests are being executed (would break > the compilation chain) we have decided to block deployment build until the > downstream finishes... That's OK. > > *Problem:* > > Since deployment jobs are blocked by downstream, whenever an IT or BCT job > is being executed deployment is forbidden, either to the affected machine > or to any testing machine, so we can not perform deployments to testing > scenarios for QA to test (an old build for example). > > *Possible solution:* > > My possible solution would be to block the execution of deployment *if > and only if* the target machine is cd and smoke or BCT tests are being > executed. I need a two factor check, one from parameters of the current > build (easy) and another from downstream executors. > > I don't know if that is possible. If that scenario is possible... how can > I implement it? Groovy? Can I mark a build as queued and allow other builds > to go ahead (parallel builds maybe)? > > Thanks for the help. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Marc MacIntyre -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
