Re: Is it any good to use Jenkins as a web based UI for running operational scripts?

2013-11-22 Thread Baptiste Mathus
+1. We're even considering using Jenkins as the default light scheduler for some of our customers. Basically, use Jenkins to do anything repetitive. People's brains should be used to do things machines can't. Le 21 nov. 2013 20:59, "Mark Waite" a écrit : > It is well within the Jenkins use model

Re: Is it any good to use Jenkins as a web based UI for running operational scripts?

2013-11-21 Thread Mark Waite
It is well within the Jenkins use model to use it to automate all sorts of other tasks. We've even gone so far as to have some of our tasks learn how to write more detailed information in JUnit format so that we can monitor results from portions of the task while still allowing the task to complet

Re: Is it any good to use Jenkins as a web based UI for running operational scripts?

2013-11-21 Thread Yasir
I am contemplating whether to use Jenkins for non-build related things. It seems like a lot people are doing that, however, what I want to ask is that does it go against the principle of Jenkins? I would love to automate certain daily tasks that a team member has to perform using jenkins. But

Re: Is it any good to use Jenkins as a web based UI for running operational scripts?

2012-08-31 Thread v0idnull
I am working on text mining project that uses wikinews as a training corpus. I use Jenkins for: a) rebuilding my corpus every week (since wikinews just keeps growing) b) rebuilding my text mining engine with the new corpus c) testing the text mining engine and recording the results. All are dri

Re: Is it any good to use Jenkins as a web based UI for running operational scripts?

2012-08-31 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Paul Weiss wrote: > Rundeck looks interesting. It supports a use case that Jenkins doesn't, > namely, running a job on _every_ slave. I would love to use this to, say, > cleanup old workspace directories for Jenkins jobs that have been deleted. Rundeck does look i

Re: Is it any good to use Jenkins as a web based UI for running operational scripts?

2012-08-31 Thread domi
Jenkins does support this too: https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/NodeLabel+Parameter+Plugin /Domi On 30.08.2012, at 16:36, Paul Weiss wrote: > Rundeck looks interesting. It supports a use case that Jenkins doesn't, > namely, running a job on _every_ slave. I would love to use this to

Re: Is it any good to use Jenkins as a web based UI for running operational scripts?

2012-08-30 Thread Paul Weiss
Rundeck looks interesting. It supports a use case that Jenkins doesn't, namely, running a job on _every_ slave. I would love to use this to, say, cleanup old workspace directories for Jenkins jobs that have been deleted. -P On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 12:32 PM, R. Tyler Croy wrote: > > On Tue, 28 A

Re: Is it any good to use Jenkins as a web based UI for running operational scripts?

2012-08-29 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 12:45 PM, David Weintraub wrote: > I've always said one of the ways you know a tool is wonderful if it > becomes useful for other tasks that were never anticipated by the > original authors. > > The fact that people are using Jenkins in situations where there is no > build,

Re: Is it any good to use Jenkins as a web based UI for running operational scripts?

2012-08-29 Thread David Weintraub
I've always said one of the ways you know a tool is wonderful if it becomes useful for other tasks that were never anticipated by the original authors. The fact that people are using Jenkins in situations where there is no build, or even real development taking place is a great complement to the J

Re: Is it any good to use Jenkins as a web based UI for running operational scripts?

2012-08-29 Thread R. Tyler Croy
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012, Manglu wrote: > I encountered an operations team which had built a number of jobs in > Jenkins and all it does was kickstart scripts in the OS. > > This sounded a bit strange to me as they are effectively using Jenkins as a > glorified UI for these tasks. I've used this p

Re: Is it any good to use Jenkins as a web based UI for running operational scripts?

2012-08-28 Thread Chris Marks
I have used Jenkins in the past to schedule report delivery for business stakeholders, run maintenance tasks on the database and reload search caches. It's centralized, easy to access, doesn't require permissions on the server, provides a log of the console, gives you the duration of each task run

Re: Is it any good to use Jenkins as a web based UI for running operational scripts?

2012-08-28 Thread Benjamin Lau
I do. While I use Jenkins for build and release type tasks I also have quite a few "maintenance" scripts that I manage inside it as well. I find this is a better way to keep track of them than keeping them in cron jobs (or System Scheduler on Windows). You can quickly check if they are running and

Is it any good to use Jenkins as a web based UI for running operational scripts?

2012-08-28 Thread Manglu
I encountered an operations team which had built a number of jobs in Jenkins and all it does was kickstart scripts in the OS. This sounded a bit strange to me as they are effectively using Jenkins as a glorified UI for these tasks. Are there others who do similar stuff? Thanks Manglu