Thanks for theses explanation. For the current need, we only have jenkins running on the host, so there is no need for other applications.
We use a haproxy as a frontend for reserve proxyfing public access. Beber D'ar merc'her 06 a viz Meurzh 2013 e 10 eur 28, « Vincent Latombe » he deus skrivet : > Hi, > > My own experience tells me it is just easier and safer to use 'java -jar > jenkins.war'. > > Within a container you have compatibility risks with other applications, > compatibility risks with the container itself (ok with Tomcat I don't think > there are many risks since it is widely used to run Jenkins instances). > If one of the hosted applications has a problem (like memory leak) then you > need to recycle the whole container, which means all services hosted on it > are down. In my opinion this is not acceptable. > > The downside is that you need one port for each application, but using a > reverse proxy as frontend it is usually not such an issue. > > Vincent > > > 2013/3/6 Josselin Pierre <pierre.j...@gmail.com> > > > Hi, > > > > AFAIK, the main goal of using Tomcat is to re-use an existing one. > > For example, on my CI server I have both Jenkins, Sonar and Artifactory > > running ; > > it can be considered "cleaner" to have only one application server running > > all these software instead of one per software. > > > > That doesn't change anything on the software-side configuration, but can > > considerable reduce the "system-side" configuration. > > For example, only one port is used for all the applications, no need to > > open a new one on the firewall / proxies / etc. > > > > I'm not aware of any huge performance benefits, but I think that for huge > > Jenkins instance, > > a dedicated Tomcat/whatever can be more finely tuned. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 2013/3/6 Bertrand Jacquin <be...@meleeweb.net> > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I'm starting using Jenkins for a project to replace buildbot, and I'm > >> able to make Jenkins web interface working without any Tomcat, just by > >> using the war file included in > >> http://pkg.jenkins-ci.org/redhat/RPMS/noarch/jenkins-1.502-1.1.noarch.rpm > >> > >> I can't figure out looking to the Wiki what are the benefit from using > >> Tomcat or others ? > >> > >> Could you enlighten me ? > >> > >> -- > >> Beber > >> > > > > -- > > 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. > > -- Beber
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