AFAIK, CloudBees would host the master and slaves, not just a slave. Worth talking to them, but a PaaS vendor is more appropriate for an on-demand slave.
Justin On Dec 16, 2010, at 2:38 AM, Matthias Wessendorf <[email protected]> wrote: > What about CloudBees? (Hudson as a service) > > Perhaps they grant OS orgs a discount? :) > (since the CEO is the formal JBoss CTO) > > -Matthias > > On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Jukka Zitting <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Despite various hickups along the way, the new Hudson master and the >> extra solaris slave we got from the old master seem to have gone a >> long way to addressing the chronic capacity problems we had earlier >> ([1] looks a lot better than it used to). Thus the need for my earlier >> idea (for which I also lobbied initial budget approval) of setting up >> an extra on-demand slave on EC2 for handling load peaks has mostly >> gone away. >> >> So the question is, should I still look at setting up an EC2 slave? >> Beyond load balancing, the other reason for running builds in the >> cloud is the availability of a wider variety of build environments. >> Basically we could provision an on-demand build slave for any >> environment for which an AMI exists or can be created. I don't have a >> pressing need for that from the projects I work with, but perhaps >> others are interested? >> >> [1] https://hudson.apache.org/hudson/load-statistics?type=hour >> >> BR, >> >> Jukka Zitting >> > > > > -- > Matthias Wessendorf > > blog: http://matthiaswessendorf.wordpress.com/ > sessions: http://www.slideshare.net/mwessendorf > twitter: http://twitter.com/mwessendorf
