Re: [libvirt] [PATCH jenkins-ci 00/19] Use jenkins-job-builder for CI

On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 03:52:09PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > We are using the CentOS Jenkins server for running CI tasks. > Currently those tasks are maintained by people manually > updating the Jenkins web UI. This is a horrible interface > that requires 100's of mouse clicks to achieve even the > simplest things. It is also incredibly hard to compare > the config of different jobs to make sure they are working > in a consistent manner. > > Fortunately there are tools which can help - OpenStack > created the jenkins-job-builder tool which uses the Jenkins > REST API to create/update jobs from a simple YAML file > definition. > > This series thus creates a set of YAML files which will > (almost) replicate our current manually create config. > > I've used jenkins-job-builder in offline test mode to > generate Jenkins XML files and then compared them to what > we currently have and they are mostly the same. So there > should not be too many suprises lurking, but I do still > expect some accidental breakage in places. As such I have > not actually uploaded the new auto-generated job configs > to ci.centos.org at this time. > > The intention is that these configs will all live in the > libvirt GIT server in a new 'libvirt-jenkins-ci' repository BTW, following on from this, I would like to create kickstart + puppet files for managing the build slaves & re-create the the slaves. This will give us a known good config that we can replicate elsewhere as needed.