On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 21:45:10 +0200 Mikolaj Izdebski <mizdebsk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > As briefly discussed today during the meeting, I would like to > evaluate the possibility to use our packaged Jenkins in Fedora > infrastructure, instead of upstream binaries. (Jenkins is > available[1] in Fedora 21 and later.) > > To get started with development of new Jenkins machines I would need > someone to create 2 new cloud machines: master with Fedora 22 and with > any OS (RHEL 6 would be my choice), each machine with at least 1 CPU, > 2 GB RAM, public IP and root access for me (FAS: mizdebsk). Also, probibly we want a persistent volume for data? > From that I will try to come with my proof-of-concept of "the new > Jenkins". If people like it then old data can be migrated and it can > become the new production instance. If not we can just scratch these > machines and keep using upstream binaries. > > So if you don't mind I'd start working on this. > Should I open a ticket for creating the new cloud instances? Sure. :) > Some more technical notes: > > 1) It is possible to use third-party plugins with packaged Jenkins, > which means that missing plugins can be installed as binary blobs > until they are packaged in Fedora. Yeah. > 2) Jenkins RPMs must be installed only on master node. All slave nodes > can connect to master and download Jenkins code from there. Slaves > still need to have basic environment installed (such as Java, git, > mock), but not Jenkins itself. This means that only the master node > must be Fedora 21+, slaves can be anything (RHEL 6/7, older Fedoras). Which is great, as we don't need then to package it for everything also. I guess it also makes the slaves simpler. > 3) Michal Srb is currently looking into packaging Jenkins as software > collection for RHEL 6 and 7. Once (and if) done this could allow > having RHEL 7 master, with the disadvantage of using "unofficial" > RPMs from softwarecollections.org. This is just the beginning and we > can evaluate having non-Fedora master later, if needed. > > [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Jenkins I'd prefer the Fedora master over using SCL's personally. Of course it means we will need to upgrade the master every 6 months or year, but hopefully that won't be too bad if everything is packaged in fedora. kevin
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