On my phone so can't check those links fully yet but you probably want to give the Jenkins Docker plugin a go. This exposes Docker as a cloud slave provider so you can dynamically spin up a slave of a particular flavour to run your job on.
HTH Richard On Thursday, June 12, 2014, Gallagher Polyn <gallagher.po...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm new to Jenkins and to Docker, so, naturally, I'm attempting use of > both together :) > > I've successfully duplicated the Docker-Jenkins CI steps shown at > www.activestate.com/blog/2014/01/using-docker-run-ruby-rspec-ci-jenkins > and I've looked with interest also at the approaches described in the two > additional Docker-CI references, farther below. > > Writers on Docker-CI assert that the lightweight nature of Docker > containers allow faster testing, because Docker test environments can very > easily be created, modified and reused by the CI server. > > My question is whether Docker's lightweight nature also allows better > exploitation of Jenkins' master-slave paradigm. Under this, I might expect > that several Docker slaves on some slave Docker host could run in parallel. > Thus, test suites would be broken down and run in parallel on a slave host > and not sequentially. > > But are there already established techniques for the full exploitation of > the compute power of slave hosts, whatever the role of Docker? > > Thanks, G > > > http://developer.rackspace.com/blog/move-fast-and-dont-break-things-testing-with-jenkins-ansible-and-docker.html > > http://www.ebaytechblog.com/2014/05/12/delivering-ebays-ci-solution-with-apache-mesos-part-ii/#.U5d-VJRdXCd > > -- > 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 jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','jenkinsci-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com');> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
