The only reason I want to move to cloud is because my IT department will not give me control of the VMs I wanted to host on their ESXi 5.5 infrastructure. They refuse to give me vSphere client access. It wants to limit me to Remote Desktop and SSH.
However I would love to make backup my IT department's problem. Yet if I cannot setup new VMs and take VM snapshots I do not see how I can manage the build system efficiently. I need to create a master Jenkins plus several Jenkins slave VM's plus a dozen or so clean VM's for software installation and smoke testing. I need to research Amazon and Cloud Bees and such. I was hoping someone here had used something like this with Jenkins and could share their feedback. -Ed On Saturday, June 20, 2015 at 4:17:33 AM UTC-5, Arun Bhosale wrote: > > Hi Ed, > > In my compnay we use internal cloud infra that is based on Cloud > Platform(CP). It is very easy to use, but a bit difficult to build and > maintain. > My Jenkins is on one such VM that is hosted on CP. It works for me well. > > Before moving to cloud, if you the infra, why not use Oracle VirtualBox? > > > > On Thursday, 18 June 2015 20:14:58 UTC+5:30, Ed of the Mountain wrote: >> >> Has anyone had a good experience about moving into the cloud? What are >> some alternatives? >> >> >> How hard was it for you to create new VMs using your own Linux ISO images >> or MSDN Windows ISO images? >> >> >> My IT department is refusing to grant access to vSphere. They want to >> confine me to remote desktop. Without easy snapshot capability through >> vSphere the benefits of a build infrastructure diminish. Plus I cannot >> quickly setup new VMs on my own. >> >> I really wish what I had setup at my last company. A dual Xeon blade >> server with 32GB RAM dedicated to software building, >> >> Thanks in advance for any feedback, >> >> -Ed >> > -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/cc7f97ce-f051-42ac-a1f6-55dff6b19b4d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
