Re: How to take care of a large Jenkins installation and still keep your sanity

2015-11-04 Thread Guenther, Marc(AWF)
Hi milki milk, sorry for the very long delay... Currently trying to followup on all the stuff that accumulated... On 03 Sep 2015, at 16:32, milki milk wrote: > On Thursday, September 3, 2015 at 4:03:50 AM UTC-7, Guenther, Marc(AWF) wrote: > >> On 01 Sep 2015, at 05:02, milki

Re: How to take care of a large Jenkins installation and still keep your sanity

2015-11-03 Thread Guenther, Marc(AWF)
Hi, here is part 3 of the series, where I describe the actual implementation that we came up with and are currently using: http://www.technology-ebay.de/the-teams/mobile-de/blog/taming-the-hydra-part-3.html Sorry for the long delay :) Have fun, Marc On 28 Aug 2015, at 15:55, Patrick Hund wrot

Re: High Memory Usage with Job DSL

2015-09-13 Thread Guenther, Marc(AWF)
Hi, we had quite some severe memory problems with Job DSL Plugin, but then, we were running it quite often (like, all the time...). In the end, it didn't even survive one working day. Using the JavaMelody Monitoring Plugin, we saw an ever increasing sawtooth in the "Used non-heap memory" and t

Re: How to take care of a large Jenkins installation and still keep your sanity

2015-09-03 Thread Guenther, Marc(AWF)
On 01 Sep 2015, at 05:02, milki milk wrote: > I'm not sure what you mean by "when a repo needs testing". So when there has > been a commit in the repo, which changes the 'jenkins.yml' file, and that > commit gets pushed, then that change will be applied to the existing jobs > before they run.

Re: How to take care of a large Jenkins installation and still keep your sanity

2015-09-03 Thread Guenther, Marc(AWF)
Hi, On 03 Sep 2015, at 01:36, milki milk wrote: > So the article only mentions 2 methods - Cloudbees Template Plugin and > Jenkins Job DSL. There are at least two other alternatives I know about - > Jenkins Job Builder and Workflow. Were these and possibly other alternatives > explored as wel

Re: How to take care of a large Jenkins installation and still keep your sanity

2015-08-31 Thread Guenther, Marc(AWF)
Hi all, I think there has been a little bit of confusion here. 1. As described in my blog article, we are using Job-DSL-Plugin, not Jenkins Job Builder (JJB). Both try to solve similar problems (automatically generate jobs based on external descriptions) but there are two very important differ