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Benefits of a Repository Manager: Part III Continuous Build Deployment


August 6, 2010 By Tim O'Brien

In the previous post in this series I discussed three compelling ways in which a repository manager can benefit the development cycle. It proxies artifacts locally, it is optimized to store binary artifacts, and it facilitates a new level of collaboration and agility that isn’t possible when your SCM is only way for workgroups to collaborate. In this post, I’m going to talk about how a repository manager works in concert with a continuous integration server like Hudson or Bamboo.

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The Hudson Build Farm Experience, Volume III


February 4, 2009 By John Casey

I’ve been working on a Hudson-based build farm for Sonatype and Maven open source builds since sometime in September of 2008. I’ve learned a lot as a result, so I thought I’d share some experiences from the trenches. In this third – and probably, final – installment I’ll discuss some issues we tackled with our VMWare environment itself, and look ahead to some issues with which we still grapple on a day-to-day basis.

VMWare, Efficiency, and the Space-Time Continuum

Compared to what we went through trying to get Windows builds running reliably out on the build farm, this discussion is going to seem somewhat…nitpicky. However, there are some important things to understand when you’re running a build farm on VMWare ESXi, so let’s dive in and take a look.

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The Hudson Build Farm Experience, Volume II


February 2, 2009 By John Casey

I’ve been working on a Hudson-based build farm for Sonatype and Maven open source builds since sometime in September of 2008. I’ve learned a lot as a result, so I thought I’d share some experiences from the trenches. In this second installment I’ll discuss a few more details related to remote maintenance, along with the hurdles we encountered integrating Windows into our Hudson farm (and the solutions we found).

Eyes and Ears: Getting Access

Having access to the build farm is critical for maintenance, but it can also be very important to developers who are debugging a failing build. In our build farm, we’re using various mechanisms to provide this access, largely based on what is best suited for a particular VM operating system. The basic requirement here is to provide “natural” browsing capabilities for the filesystem on each VM, along with the ability to upload files if necessary (this came in very handy for installing and testing FlashPlayer, for instance).

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The Hudson Build Farm Experience, Volume I


January 27, 2009 By John Casey

I’ve been working on a Hudson-based build farm for Sonatype and Maven open source builds since sometime in September of 2008. I’ve learned a lot as a result, so I thought I’d share some experiences from the trenches. In this first installment, I’m only going to cover our goals and outline the basic setup of our farm; I’ll save discussion of specific hurdles and advantages offered by our environment for the next post.

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