Servers, CI, and you!

[Evan D. Schoenberg, M.D.]

I'm not a server admin guy, so I'm going to leave the discussion to those who are.  For my side, I'll just say that I'm confident that Network Redux will help us out with whatever we decide is best.  If there are questions that have to do with VM capabilities, we might want to include them in the conversation - there may be a reason for certain configuration decisions based on their platform.  In general, though:

On Oct 3, 2012, at 4:47 AM, Evan Kinney <emkinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> Also, it looks like duck and eider are two OpenVZ VMs in the same
> Network Redux datacenter. duck has 3 cores (any reason for 3?) with
> 6GB of RAM, and eider has 2 cores with 2GB of RAM. What if we were to
> combine those together and just have one larger VM?

I'm not aware of any reason to maintain 2 separate systems.

> I have a lot of experience doing that, but I know
> it's not exactly the easiest thing to maintain... so maybe simple is
> better here, even if we're giving up high availability.

Simple simple simple. Let's definitely avoid overcomplicating the setup - especially given that our downloads, which are the only high-bandwidth section of the site, are hosted elsewhere, we definitely don't need to prepare for nuclear holocaust, and I do think we should stick with stable OS releases unless there's a really good reason to do otherwise.

> I'd also like to maybe stick the idea in your head about possibly
> trying out Jenkins instead of Buildbot. Jenkins does some really,
> really cool stuff in the way of Xcode integration and unit testing
> stuff, among other things. It's what I use for all of my iOS/Mac
> projects, and it's what we use at work.

Buildbot was what existed and worked pretty well, and what a couple folks were comfortable setting up, a couple years ago.  i don't believe anyone has a religious commitment to it as our automated build system.  Colin did a lot of its configuration (with help from several others) - guys, any objections?

-Evan


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