On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 01:22:52PM +0200, Pavel Hrdina wrote:
On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 11:54:17AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
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.
That's definitely good idea. As you've probably noticed there is a lot of env variables configured for all slaves. Is it possible to use the jenkins-jobs tool to configure those env variables too? I don't think that's a good idea configure those env variables directly inside the slaves since they are used only by Jenkins.
Yeah, we can trivially inject the env variables into all the job shell scripts directly now Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|