Comments on: CruiseControl Enterprise Best Practices, Part 6: Scaling up http://www.build-doctor.com/2008/03/29/cruisecontrol-enterprise-best-practices-part-6-scaling-up/ Continuous Integration, Delivery and Devops Consulting Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:31:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: simpsonjulianhttp://www.build-doctor.com/2008/03/29/cruisecontrol-enterprise-best-practices-part-6-scaling-up/comment-page-1/#comment-46 simpsonjulian Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:47:22 +0000 http://beta.build-doctor.com/?p=33#comment-46 Srinath, By all means give it a try. I wish someone had the time to do the integration work to get that into the main CruiseControl project. Other open source CI servers (most famously Hudson) will allow you to run agents and run different builds. I've got a feeling though, that you're trying to throw many servers at one huge monolithic build. I did once try clustering to fix that (it failed because the Linux JVM didn't have proper threads at the time) but I think that introduces additional complexities. There's a point at which someone has to pay back some tech debt. If you can break a monolith into chunks, then perhaps you can farm the chunks out to different nodes. it might be worth paying for a commercial product. I hope this has been any help at all. Srinath,

By all means give it a try. I wish someone had the time to do the integration work to get that into the main CruiseControl project. Other open source CI servers (most famously Hudson) will allow you to run agents and run different builds.

I’ve got a feeling though, that you’re trying to throw many servers at one huge monolithic build. I did once try clustering to fix that (it failed because the Linux JVM didn’t have proper threads at the time) but I think that introduces additional complexities. There’s a point at which someone has to pay back some tech debt.

If you can break a monolith into chunks, then perhaps you can farm the chunks out to different nodes. it might be worth paying for a commercial product. I hope this has been any help at all.

]]> By: Srinath Balaramanhttp://www.build-doctor.com/2008/03/29/cruisecontrol-enterprise-best-practices-part-6-scaling-up/comment-page-1/#comment-48 Srinath Balaraman Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:19:26 +0000 http://beta.build-doctor.com/?p=33#comment-48 I found this btw: http://cruisecontrol.sourceforge.net/distributed/index.html I haven't tried this. I wonder if it would work. Thanks, Srinath I found this btw: http://cruisecontrol.sourceforge.net/distributed/index.html

I haven’t tried this. I wonder if it would work.

Thanks,
Srinath

]]> By: Srinath Balaramanhttp://www.build-doctor.com/2008/03/29/cruisecontrol-enterprise-best-practices-part-6-scaling-up/comment-page-1/#comment-47 Srinath Balaraman Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:14:58 +0000 http://beta.build-doctor.com/?p=33#comment-47 Is there a way to use one CruiseControl installation as a server and distribute the jobs it receives to several agent hosts to parallelize several functions? I know of several Commercial solution in this space but I was wondering if this is possible to achieve this through open source solutions. Thanks, Srinath Is there a way to use one CruiseControl installation as a server and distribute the jobs it receives to several agent hosts to parallelize several functions? I know of several Commercial solution in this space but I was wondering if this is possible to achieve this through open source solutions.

Thanks,
Srinath

]]> By: Banoshttp://www.build-doctor.com/2008/03/29/cruisecontrol-enterprise-best-practices-part-6-scaling-up/comment-page-1/#comment-45 Banos Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:02:08 +0000 http://beta.build-doctor.com/?p=33#comment-45 Publishing is great. It doesnt fail the build if there's a problem, so no false negatives! Great! So what happens when the testers try to grab 2 good builds ago to assess a defect - oops the publisher failed and no one knew about it .. till now :) Great site btw. B. Publishing is great. It doesnt fail the build if there’s a problem, so no false negatives! Great! So what happens when the testers try to grab 2 good builds ago to assess a defect – oops the publisher failed and no one knew about it .. till now :)

Great site btw.

B.

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