While I'm interested in Jenkins as a means to provide continuous build functionality, I'm really even more interested in Jenkins as a means to exercise my application in its prod environment against unexpected changes in infrastructure beyond my control that may effect my application. I can't find a ton of information on using Jenkins in this way, but I was wondering if there are others out there doing this? Essentially I have a project that runs maven test parametized with my prod url, but for these projects I don't actually do any building. Are there other tools besides Jenkins I should be considering to do this? If so, why?
If you've got your tests set up to run via Maven already, I think Jenkins would be a good option. You could set up email, IM or SMS alerts using Jenkins plugins, and keep a record of the results within Jenkins.
The only down sides I can think of are:
You'll probably want to run your monitoring a lot more frequently than a regular CI job, so you might want to keep more build records than the default of 10.
If you already have a system like Nagios or OpenView to monitor system resources, it might be better to integrate app monitoring into that rather than having another source of truth.
Jenkins Provides a plugin called Status Monitor Plugin
We have ours set to check a specific URL every 5 mins and email us when something fails. Our problem is that it won't sent emails to cell phone carrier email addresses. However, if regular email will suffice, the setup time for a plugin is less than a half hour and it is reliable as long as the Jenkins server stays up.
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I've got a project with 4 components, and every component has hosting set up on Google Cloud Run, separate deployments for testing and for production. I'm also using Google Cloud Build to handle the build & deployment of the components.
Due to lack of good webhook events from source system, I'm currently forced to trigger a rebuild of all components in a project every time there is a new change. In the project this means 8 different images to build and deploy, as testing and production use different build-time settings as well.
I've managed to optimize Cloud Build to handle the 8 concurrent builds pretty nicely, but they all finish around the same time, and then all 8 are pushed to Cloud Run. It often seems like Cloud Run does not like this at all and starts throwing some errors to me that I've been unable to resolve.
First and more serious is that often about 4-6 of the 8 deployments go through as expected, and the remaining ones either are significantly delayed or just fail, often so that the first few go through fine, then a few with significant delays, and the final 1-2 just fail. This seems to be caused by some "reconciliation request quota" being exhausted in the region (in this case europe-north1), as this is the error I can see at the top of the Cloud Run service -view:
Additionally and mostly annoyingly, the Cloud Run dashboard itself does not seem to handle having 8 services deployed, as just sitting on the dashboard view listing the services regularly throws me another error related to some read quotas:
I've tried contacting Google via their recommended "Send feedback" button but have received no reply in ~1wk+ (who knows when I sent it, because they don't seem to confirm receipt).
One option I can do to try and improve the situation is to deploy the "testing" and "production" variants in different regions, however that would be less than optimal, and seems like this is some simple configuration somewhere about the limits. Are there other options for me to consider? Or should I just try to set up some synchronization on these that not all deployments are fired at once?
Optimizing the need to build and deploy all components at once is not really an option in this case, since they have some shared code as well, and when that changes it would still be necessary to support this.
This is an issue with Cloud Run. Developers are expected to be able to deploy many services in parallel.
The bug should be fixed within a few days or couple of weeks.
[update] Bug should now be fixed.
Make sure to use the --async flag if you want to deploy in parrallel: gcloud run deploy $SERVICE --image --async
I have a few processes on my machine that I would like to have constantly running. I like however, how Jenkins organizes the jobs logging and I can go and see a build executing and see its STDOUT in realtime.
Would it be an issue to have a job that never finishes? I've heard after time there would be interruptions. Is there a better tool for something like this? Would basically love to be able to see the output from a web based perspective of the tool (and add hooks on failures)
For example if I were hosting a Node.js site, and wanted to be able to see the output of people connecting to the website or whatever is logged by the site. Ideally as long as you want to run the server, the process would be running constantly
I've been looking all over the internet for a free way to load Jenkins up as an enterprise application. To be more clear, I mean to load Jenkins front end into two or more servers and allow load balancing between them.
Everything I've read is regarding distributed build. While I will also want to do this, make all servers build agents as well, I would like a disaster recovery environment kind of set up for the front end in the event that, say, our connection is down to a data center. Active/Active hosting would be desired, but active/backup would be fine too.
Any materials available to explain how to do this?
I haven't used this solution but it looks like the Gearman Plugin might provide the architecture you're looking for. It looks like the plugin creates a job queue that can be accessed by multiple Jenkins masters and serviced by multiple build agents. Looks like this would support an active/active set up.
https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/Gearman+Plugin
What are the best practices for a jenkins installation like the one below?
I do have a quite small dedicated server with 16 gb of ram and 2tb of diskspace with enabled hardware virtualization, and one use of it would be to host my own projects (opensource), and there are applications set up such as git repository manager and stuff.
I would like to set up jenkins there for automatic building, but I want to make it secure.
This installation is small enough to require only a master node, but I am planning to disable building on master completely, and to run a virtual machine as an agent, for the reason that it would be isolated as much as possible on the same physical server, so that a job would be unable to destroy jenkins master data.
Should I go for master only anyway? or, if using a virtual machine agent, should I have only one executor there or multiple ones? I probably cannot isolate multiple parallel jobs running on one agent without using one agent per job, but maybe I am overthinking all this. Using one agent per job, at least in case of virtual machines, would exhaust server resources very quickly, or alternatively, money.
You can use Jenkins own database of users, which I have used in commercial settings and it has worked perfectly well. If you have Active Directory you can also integrate with this if you want to go to extra effort so people only have to remember one login.
Once users are logged in you should provide authorisation via the Role-Strategy plugin
Does anybody know about (or have experience with) a simple continuous integration system that can be run via cron and produce a static HTML report?
Tools like Jenkins and BuildBot all seem to need their own daemon processes. (Which in my case means I need to get time from sysadmins to set up. Not gonna happen.)
Ideally, I'd like an output report that looks like:
http://buildbot.buildbot.net/#/console
That is, one row per revision and one column per build config. With a green/red status on each.
Generally, the reason why people don't run CI systems in cron is that they rapidly outgrow cron.