Re: broken builds taking up resources

[Chris Lambertus]

> On Jan 28, 2020, at 8:22 PM, Allen Wittenauer 
> <a...@effectivemachines.com.INVALID> wrote:

[snip]

> [1] - The best on-prem solution I came up with  (before I moved my $DAYJOB 
> stuff to cloud) was to run each executor in a VM on the box.  That VM would 
> also have a regularly scheduled job that would cause it to wipe itself and 
> respawn via a trigger mechanism.  Yeah, completely sucks, but at least it 
> affords a lot more safety.

Allen,

I’d be interested in hearing more about your implementation here. Infra is 
moving towards a more compartmentalized strategy for jenkins, and I’m looking 
at how builds could be ephemeralized using k8s. 

-Chris