On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 12:58 PM, David Weintraub <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am planning on setting up a new Jenkins server at our company. I
> want to keep all deployable artifacts in Jenkins for a wide variety of
> reason (easy access, access control, etc.).
>
> The company would prefer if these deployable artifacts were kept on a
> NAS for backup reasons.
>
> I am sure that wouldn't be an issue with Jenkins. The only issue is
> one of speed. Jenkins would be doing the checkout remotely, and then
> compiling the remote source files. That could slow things down quite a
> bit. Most builds are pretty fast, with in a few minutes, so it's not a
> terrible concern. If a job is really problematic, I could configure it
> to use a local working directory. However, I can see this really
> increasing the maintenance. For example, imagine a job I configure on
> the NAS and use a particular directory for local storage. The
> developers branch the project and now want a Jenkins job for that
> branch. I copy the old Jenkins job, change the checkout URL and a few
> other things, but forget the local working directory. Now, I have two
> jobs using the same local working directory.
>
> It would be nice if Jenkins could be configured, so that the working
> directory is automatically put elsewhere. That way, when I create a
> job, Jenkins would simply put the working directory in local storage
> for me. For example, I configure a job /mnt/nas/jenkins/jobs/foo. All
> directories would be on the NAS, but the working directory would be on
> /opt/local/jenkins/foo or /opt/local/jenkins/jobs/foo. (I really don't
> care as long as local working directories are unique). Is there any
> way to set Jenkins up to do this? Is there a plugin that can do this?
Are you building everything on the jenkins host? Why not do builds
on slaves (even on the same host if necessary), and tell jenkins to
archive the build artifacts you want? Then you can mount the NAS
storage wherever jenkins puts the artifacts without affecting builds -
or requiring the normally disposable workspaces to be on the NAS.
--
Les Mikesell
[email protected]
