In my last position we used it for essentially business process automation aka 
cron jobs I cared about the output of. I hate cron spam and love dashboards. 
Moving things like kicking off backups, puppet code deploys, disk quota 
auditing all went into jenkins. If it was red, I fixed it and had all the logs 
of what was going on right there.

-- cwebber

On Jan 14, 2013, at 4:41 PM, Adam Moskowitz <[email protected]> wrote:

> Is anyone using continuous build or continuous integration tools --
> stuff like Jenkins or Bamboo or CruiseControl [1] -- for sysadmin tasks?
> If so, can you say what kinds of tasks you're doing with these tools?
> 
> I'm a big fan of Jenkins, I use it every day, and I work with / use /
> help manage a few hundred Jenkins jobs -- but nearly all of those jobs
> are software builds or software tests. Kinda makes sense since I'm
> working more-or-less as a build engineer with my primary task being
> software development. But I've heard some people say they use such tools
> for sysadmin stuff so I'm curious what you're doing with CB/CI tools.
> 
> Thanks,
> Adam
> 
> [1] Other CB/CI tools include Buildbot, Apache Gump, Apache Continuum,
>    TeamCity, Anthill Pro, and BuildMaster (plus plenty of others).
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