The path to Repeatable Builds

The path to repeatable builds

Andrzej Grzesik

@ags313

[email protected]

andrzejgrzesik.info

about:me

disclaimers

my opinions are my own

any resemblance (…)purely coincidental ;-)

I hate computers

questions?shoot!

episode Ithe New

ad-hoc, manual Jenkins

new department

needed something to run the code

how this ended:

‘dev’ desktop turned CI

‘magic’, ‘mysticism’, problems and pain

1/11, would not do again

episode IInode wars

machines failedsurprise

more builds, more wait

fix

how this ended:

better: experimentation and no-fear

5/11, not a bad start

episode IIIrevenge of the VMs

because

reality

certain software doesn’t like automation

did: VM, treasure the image, run away

more builds, more wait?

cheffing Jenkins && nodes (good)

cheffing Jenkins configuration (not so)

backups for Jenkins

ganglia to look at nodes

8/11, stable

episode IVmobile menace

mobile menace

automating mobile testing

grid for iOS Selenium Driver

everybody uses mac minis ;-)

mobile menace

64 OSX VMs ++ chef server

logstash to collect and analyze chef logs

VMWare to power VMs because Vsphere

mobile menace

OSX is full of quirks!

needed quick node rebuild a bit too often

10 - 1/11, it still works!

episode Vbad idea of the century

X in a box.

X in a box.as in, *whole* prod in a box

starts innocent

results

all dependencies in one place

easy to integration test

easy to deploy MY stuff

grows into…

results

“so much space still to consume”

dependency spaghetti

NEG_INFINITY/11

episode VIReturn(?) of the

breaks a bit, so good for hacking

caveat: java, maven && stuff

solution: images with SBT

not so fast

Devs “love” OSX!

Dependencies

boot2docker runs out of…

episode VIIdon’t know ;-)