Dynamically spinning up Jenkins slaves on Docker clusters
Introduction: Being able to dynamically spin up slave containers is great. But if we want to support significant build volumes we need more than a few Docker hosts. Defining a separate Docker cloud instance for each new host is definitely not something we want to do – especially as we’d need to redefine the slave templates for each new host. A much nicer solution is combining our Docker hosts into a cluster managed by a so-called container orchestrator (or scheduler) and then define that whole cluster as one cloud instance in Jenkins.This way we can easily expand the cluster by adding new nodes into it without needing to update anything in Jenkins configuration. There are 4 leading container orchestration platforms today and they are: Kubernetes (open-sourced and maintained by Google) Docker Swarm (from Docker Inc. – the company behind Docker) Marathon (a part of the Mesos project) Nomad (from Hashicorp)…
Continuous Lifecycle London 2017
Last week I had the honour to speak about ChatOps at Continuous Lifecycle conference in London. The conference is organised by The Register and heise Developer and is dedicated to all things DevOps and Continuous Software Delivery. There were 2 days of talks and one day of workshops. Regretfully I couldn’t attend the last day, but I heard some of the workshops were really great. The Venue The venue was great! Situated right in the historical centre of London city, a few steps away from Big Ben, the QEII Center has a breathtaking view and a lot of space. The talks took place in 3 rooms : one large auditorium and 2 — smaller ones. It is quite hard to predict which talks will attract the most audience and it was hit and miss this time around too. Some talks were over-crowded while others felt a bit empty. Between the talks everybody gathered…