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Metamorphosis - The screwdriver turns into a nuclear plant
// Björn Beskow
Continuous Integration servers have been around for quite a number of years. Mostly out of slentrian, I have stuck to CruiseControl since the alternatives (AntHill, Continuum, Hudsun, …) just haven’t been that much better to motivate me to switch.
I just attended Kuhsuke Kawaguchi’s Hudson presentation at JavaZone, and got quite a surprise. When I looked at Hudson last time (yes, it was a time ago), it was just another CI server with a nice web GUI. The presentation today showed a completely different creature. Build distribution and scalability has obviously been the focus in the Hudson team, and the latest Hudson version comes with an extremely ambitious Clustering mechanism:
- Several nodes collaborate in a Master-Slave setup, with support for at least up to 100 slaves.
- Master and slaves may run on heterogeneous hardware, with support for Solaris, most Linux dialects as well as windows.
- Slaves can be automatically configured from the Master: when a new Slave node is added, it can have a specified version of the JVM, Ant and Maven libraries downloaded and installed automatically. Using the Hudson PXE protocol, a new slave node can even boot over the network, have the operating system installed from the Master before continuing the bootstrap!
- Slave node system resources (disk space, wap space, memory etc) can be automatically monitored by the Master, and slave nodes are automatically put offline if they degenerate
- The cluster utilization itself is constantly monitored: How many nodes are busy? How long is the job queue? Using the Hudson EC2 plugin, new Slave nodes can even be allocated dynamically in the Cloud, on demand!
- You can even run other clustered applications like Hadoop or Selenium Grid on a Hudson cluster!
Wow! Not what I was looking for, but really cool stuff.
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