And if your slaves are not virtual machines, take a look at https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/PXE+Plugin or https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Scripted+Cloud+plugin
-- Sami Mark Waite <markwa...@yahoo.com> kirjoitti 30.1.2013 kello 14.31: > If you need to restore an existing operating system to a known good state > each time, you could consider using a virtual machine and reverting to a > snapshot of the virtual machine. There are several plugins for virtual > machine control from Jenkins. The plugin you use depends on the virtual > machine hypervisor you choose. > > If you need to install a new operating system (possibly you're testing an > operating system distribution that is changing?), you might consider "puppet" > or "chef" as ways to install a new operating system under Jenkins control. I > believe the puppet team has one or more tutorials on how to use puppet with > Jenkins. > > Mark Waite > > From: Manish Singh <munsi...@gmail.com> > To: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com > Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 12:06 AM > Subject: Installing operating systems on slaves via Jenkins > > Hello All, > > I have a requirement, where I need to reinstall OS on slave machines before a > job is executed. This is needed as we need a clean OS before executing the > tests. > > What are the best ways to do this via Jenkins? > > -Manish > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
