Keeping windows slaves up to date

[Dirk Kuypers]

Hi all,

as I have an increasing number of windows slaves on my Jenkins (currently > 40) I was wondering how to keep software on them up to date without logging in manually on each of the machines. There is at least one "patch day" a month were you want to install the newest Windows patches and from time to time one of the packages we use for building our software gets a new version, too.

I searched via google but did not find something useful, but maybe my search was bad. Most hits were about keeping the slave.jar current, but that is solved in our environment. So my question is, how do you handle updates of windows components on your slaves (via Jenkins?). 

Thanks for any hints

Dirk

[Slide]

For "automated" Windows updates, I've used [1] before. I haven't used it in some time though, but it looks like they've made it compatible with Windows 8 since I last used it. I didn't check the current pricing for it either, when I last used it, it was a free application. Some other options from googling are AutoPatcher [2] and ABC-Update [3].

As these are command line applications, you should be able to run them from a Jenkins job without any problems. The only issue will be the reboot, which will possibly cause the run to fail.

Thanks,

Slide

1 - https://www.wuinstall.com/

2 - http://www.autopatcher.net/forum/

3 - http://abc-deploy.com/abc-update/

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[Oleg Nenashev]

We used shared directories to store service binaries & distribute them

BTW slave.jar and jenkins-slave.exe can be updated using WinSW features:

* https://github.com/kohsuke/winsw#deferred-file-operations

* https://github.com/kohsuke/winsw#download-1

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