Carlos Roque – Code Hints, Examples and more
It has been quite some time since I posted. This is largely because I have been busy digging into the wonderful world of OpenStack over at HP Cloud Services .
One of the things I have been working on is the new Load Balancing as a Service (LBaaS) offering with former Drizzle teammates Andrew Hutchings and David Shrewsbury . You can find out more details and whatnot for LBaaS here , but this post isn’t so much about the details of load balancing as it is about the neat CI / CD tricks we are accomplishing via Jenkins and Saltstack .
What we needed was a way to spin up, configure, and manage test slaves without necessarily wanting to manage them forever and always. I’m sure many Jenkins users out there have dealt with borked, messy, misconfigured slave machines that cost a lot of time and effort to get sorted. So how to solve this? Hey, I know! We have a cloud, so let’s use it. Let’s create on-demand machines that we can configure as needed and then blow away. Sounds good, right? Well, like many things in life it is easier said tha
Carlos Roque – Code Hints, Examples and more