Scaling Jenkins
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The document discusses scaling Jenkins, an open source automation server. It notes that over 83% of users consider Jenkins mission critical. Scaling Jenkins involves increasing the number of slaves, jobs, builds and concurrent HTTP requests. It also involves deciding between a single or multiple masters. The document outlines factors to consider when managing Jenkins at large scale like security, plugins, resource utilization and high availability. It presents a reference architecture with multiple Jenkins masters, load balancers, shared build nodes, and centralized management and access controls.
Scaling Jenkins
- 1. Scaling Jenkins Udaypal Aarkoti Director, Solution Architecture ©2014 CloudBees, Inc. All Rights Reserved 1
- 2. >83% think Jenkins is mission cri2cal Source: 2012 Jenkins Survey ©2014 CloudBees, Inc. All Rights Reserved 2
- 3. ©2014 CloudBees, Inc. All Rights Reserved 3 Meet Jenkins > 67% Have >5 projects > 91% Have >2 projects Source: 2012 Jenkins Survey
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- 5. What does scaling Jenkins involve? • # of Slaves • # of Jobs • # of Builds • # of Concurrent HTTP requests • Single master vs Multiple masters ©2014 CloudBees, Inc. All Rights Reserved 5
- 6. Managing Jenkins at scale • Managing multiple Masters • Security • Plugins • Resource Utilization • Availability • Organizing Jobs • Onboarding new teams / projects ©2014 CloudBees, Inc. All Rights Reserved 6
- 7. Scaling Jenkins Reference Architecture Jenkins Master 1 Jenkins Master-1 Master-1 Master-1 Shared ©2014 CloudBees, Inc. All Rights Reserved 7 Jenkins Operations Center HA Proxy Dev Update Center QA Update Center Jenkins Operations Center Shared Build noSdheasred Build noSdheasred Build noSdheasred Build nodes LDAP Role Based Access Control * * * Jenkins Opera,ons center HA Proxy Jenkins Master-1 Backup Shared Build nodes Build nodes HA Proxy Jenkins Master-N Jenkins Master-N Backup Jenkins Master N HA Proxy Jenkins Master-N Jenkins Master-N Backup Jenkins Test Environment Test Update Center SSO
- 8. ©2014 CloudBees, Inc. All Rights Reserved 8 Questions? Thank You!