[hibernate-dev] ci.hibernate.org and network port assignment

[Sanne Grinovero]

Thanks Paolo!

@All, since we now have a single executor on the CI server, I've
enforced a 90 minutes timeout on the ORM build job (master) as it
occasionally hangs.

On 18 March 2014 22:49, Paolo Antinori <paolo.antinori at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi everyone,
>
> I'll be happy to help with the activity of isolating build job in docker
> containers started directly via jenkins.
>
> The technology should allow concurrent  build job totally isolated, as
> anticipated.
>
> I am going to start with OGM that is the project I am more familiar with
> and I will let you know of eventual achievement.
>
>
> paolo
>
>
>
> I've created WEBSITE-178 [1] as once again we had testsuites failing
> because of a network port being used by a different job; bad luck, but
> we can do better.
>
> Assuming we want to use the Jenkins plugin "port allocator", this
> would however need to be consistently honored by all builds we launch:
> it passes variables which we should use, but it can't enforce them
> AFAIK.
>
> Is that going to be maintanable in the long run?
>
> An alternative would be to consistently run each and every build in
> its own isolated docker container, but
> a) that's not something I can setup overnight
> b) we'd need to use more complex build scripts, for example the nice
> Maven and Gradle integrations with the Jenkins build configuration
> would be unusable.
>
> We're having quite a list of services; even ignoring the OGM exotic
> databases we have at least:
>  - Byteman
>  - JGroups
>  - Arquillian
>  - WildFly
>  - ActiveMQ (JMS tests in Search)
>  - ... ?
>
> To fight the urgent need, I'm going to prevent parallelism of any
> build. Let's hope ORM's master doesn't get stuck, as everything else
> would be blocked. I really hope this measure stays as temporary as
> possible :-/
>
> -- Sanne
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