Description

Production

A single Linux server running the lastest stable version of Jenkins CI Server, with up to 10 optional worker nodes (connected via Swarm).

Instructions

Accessing Jenkins

In a browser, navigate to the URL provided in the output section. Once logged in, you can immediately create a new job!

Logging in via SSH

The private key provided in the passwords section can be used to login as root via SSH. We have an article on how to use these keys with Mac OS X and Linux as well as Windows using PuTTY.

Plugins

Jenkins offers a wide range of useful plugins that can be used to expand both the features as well as capacity of your test environments. Check out the Jenkins Plugins documentation for information on how to easily install and use plugins through the web interface.

Additional Notes

You can add or remove worker nodes to this deployment by updating the "server_count" parameter for this stack.

Requirements

• A Heat provider that supports the following:
  • OS::Heat::ResourceGroup
  • OS::Heat::SoftwareConfig
  • OS::Heat::SoftwareDeployment
  • OS::Nova::KeyPair
  • OS::Nova::Server
  • Rackspace::Cloud::BackupConfig
• An OpenStack username, password, and tenant id.
• python-heatclient >= v0.2.8:

pip install python-heatclient

We recommend installing the client within a Python virtual environment.

Parameters

Parameters can be replaced with your own values when standing up a stack. Use the -P flag to specify a custom parameter.

• jenkins_email: E-mail Address for Jenkins Admin User (Default: admin@example.com)
• flavor: Flavor of Cloud Server to use for Jenkins (Default: 4 GB General Purpose v1)
• slave_flavor: Flavor of Cloud Server to use for Jenkins Workers (Default: 4 GB General Purpose v1)
• server_count: Number of secondary worker nodes (Default: 0)

Outputs

Once a stack comes online, use heat output-list to see all available outputs. Use heat output-show <OUTPUT NAME> to get the value of a specific output.

• jenkins_public_ip: Jenkins Public IP
• jenkins_public_url: Jenkins Public URL
• ssh_private_key: SSH Private Key
• secondary_ips: Secondary Node IPs

For multi-line values, the response will come in an escaped form. To get rid of the escapes, use echo -e '<STRING>' > file.txt. For vim users, a substitution can be done within a file using %s/\\n/\r/g.