Good point Richard. I think I need to lobby IT to purchase a dedicated VM host server for software build and test and I must have vSphere support.
-Ed On Wednesday, July 1, 2015 at 4:08:37 PM UTC-5, Richard Bywater wrote: > > Just as an aside and not a direct help, but are you sure that you'd be > able to use Amazon/CloudBees/etc. in your company for the purpose you want? > Sounds to me that if the IT department aren't willing to give the relevant > controls to you to run VMs internally, then the chance of opening up > network access from the company network to a cloud provider and sending > company stuff out there is kind of unlikely. > > Just my 2 cents :) > > Richard. > > On Thu, 2 Jul 2015 at 07:09 Ed of the Mountain <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> 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] <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/cc7f97ce-f051-42ac-a1f6-55dff6b19b4d%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/cc7f97ce-f051-42ac-a1f6-55dff6b19b4d%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- 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/1ba51376-68d1-44b5-a2b4-40f48c91341c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
