I've created a PR to cover this:
https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/1448
I think it's relatively sane, though the NodeProvisioner had changed around
a bit between me writing it and rebasing to submit the PR.
On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 5:11 PM, Jesse Glick wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 8
On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 8:57 AM, Nigel Magnay wrote:
> Being able to really cheaply push entire workspaces around feels like a
> worthwhile improvement
Yes. Probably the API should also cover interactive workspace
browsing; I think https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-25224
is sufficient
>
>
> Ah, so what you are getting it is that after running a checkout and
> some initial steps on a workspace on one machine, you want subsequent
> steps on other slaves to use either a lightweight clone of the
> workspace (à la ZFS) or a shared mount of it (à la Docker volumes).
> This makes sense
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 1:41 AM, Nigel Magnay wrote:
> Are there any examples of clouds that [honor provisioning requests for the
> names of existing slaves]?
Not sure.
> better parallelism: once the project is built, run the potentially run the 5
> different next steps on different machines
>
>
> This at least is possible, if your Cloud honors a request for a label
> which was actually a previously used Slave.name. There is not much
> flexibility here but at least from a Workflow project it might be
> feasible. I am not sure what it buys you as opposed to doing all the
> build steps w
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 4:55 AM, Nigel Magnay wrote:
> it may be useful to be able to say "only launch downstream slaves
> on the same physical node as the upstream job".
This at least is possible, if your Cloud honors a request for a label
which was actually a previously used Slave.name. There i
I'm thinking out loud here, but I wonder if it would be nice to be able to
support the following scenarios in Jenkins (and docker plugin users have
been asking for similar features).
I use docker to launch slaves on a variety of boxes. This works very
nicely. You can tell docker to attach a 'data
