On 06/17/2016 12:41 AM, James E. Blair wrote: > Since its inception, the OpenStack project has used Jenkins to perform > its testing and artifact building. When OpenStack was two git repos, > we had one Jenkins master, a few slaves, and we configured all of our > jobs manually in the web interface. It was easy for a new project > like OpenStack to set up and maintain. Over the years, we have grown > significantly, with over 1,200 git repos and 8,000 jobs spread across > 8 Jenkins masters and 800 dynamic slave nodes. Long before we got to > this point, we could not manage all of those jobs by hand, so we wrote > Jenkins Job Builder[1], one of our more widely used projects, so that > we could automatically generate those 8,000 jobs from templated YAML. > > We also wrote Zuul[2]. > > Zuul is a system to drive project automation. It directs our testing, > running tens of thousands of jobs each day, responding to events from > our code review system and stacking potential changes to be tested > together. > > We are working on a new version of Zuul (version 3) with some major > changes: we want to make it easier to run jobs in multi-node > environments, easier to manage large numbers of jobs and job > variations, support in-tree job configuration, and the ability to define > jobs using Ansible[3]. > > With Zuul in charge of deciding which jobs to run, and when and where > to run them, we use very few advanced features of Jenkins at this > point. While we are still working on Zuul v3, we are at a point where > we can start to use some of the work we have done already to switch to > running our jobs entirely with Zuul. > > As of today, we have turned off our last Jenkins master and all of our > automation is being run by Zuul. It's been a great ride, and > OpenStack wouldn't be where it is today without Jenkins. Now we're > looking forward to focusing on Zuul v3 and exploring the full > potential of project automation. > > [1] http://docs.openstack.org/infra/jenkins-job-builder/ > [2] http://docs.openstack.org/infra/zuul/ > [3] https://www.ansible.com/
What will be the faith of jenkins job builder then? It is already used by lots of people, including some Debian folks. Will it be maintained? Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo) __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
