Cloud alternatives for hosting Jenkins + build slaves Windows, OS X, and maybe Linux ? Snapshot capability.

[Eddie Sutton]

Has anyone had a good experience about moving into the cloud?  What are some alternatives?

How hard was it for you to create new VMs using your own Linux ISO images or MSDN Windows ISO images?

My IT department is refusing to grant access to vSphere.  They want to confine me to remote desktop.  Without easy snapshot capability through vSphere the benefits of a build infrastructure diminish.  Plus I cannot quickly setup new VMs on my own.

I really wish what I had setup at my last company.  A dual Xeon blade server with 32GB RAM dedicated to software building,

Thanks in advance for any feedback,

-Ed

[Arun Bhosale]

Hi Ed,

In my compnay we use internal cloud infra that is based on Cloud Platform(CP). It is very easy to use, but a bit difficult to build and maintain.

My Jenkins is on one such VM that is hosted on CP. It works for me well.

Before moving to cloud, if you the infra, why not use Oracle VirtualBox?

[Ed of the Mountain]

The only reason I want to move to cloud is because my IT department will not give me control of the VMs I wanted to host on their ESXi 5.5 infrastructure. They refuse to give me vSphere  client access.  It wants to limit me to Remote Desktop and SSH.

However I would love to make backup my IT department's problem. Yet if I cannot setup new VMs and take VM snapshots I do not see how I can manage the build system efficiently.

I need to create a master Jenkins plus several Jenkins slave VM's plus a dozen or so clean VM's for software installation and smoke testing.  

I need to research Amazon and Cloud Bees and such.  I was hoping someone here had used something like this with Jenkins and could share their feedback.

-Ed

[Richard Bywater]

Just as an aside and not a direct help, but are you sure that you'd be able to use Amazon/CloudBees/etc. in your company for the purpose you want? Sounds to me that if the IT department aren't willing to give the relevant controls to you to run VMs internally, then the chance of opening up network access from the company network to a cloud provider and sending company stuff out there is kind of unlikely.

Just my 2 cents :)

Richard.

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[Ed of the Mountain]

Good point Richard.

I think I need to lobby IT to purchase a dedicated VM host server for software build and test and I must have vSphere support.

-Ed