Spartanburg, SC, USA

1. See Build,
See Build Run
Run Build Run
Hudson - Continuous Integration
Vincent Batts vbatts@gmail.com
SELF 2010

2. Outline
● What is it?
● Why would I want it, or anything like it?
● How do I get it going?
● Can it whistle while it twurks?
● WORK IT!

3. What is it?
Continuous Integration

4. Continuous Integration
Project started by Kohsuke Kawaguchi
Integration Principles
Single Repository
Performance
Visibility
Unified UI to manage builds

5. Why would I want it, or anything like it?
● $> whoami
● Automating build related functions
● Integrated Information

6. $> whoami
Software Projects
Open source
Commercial
Otherwise
Distributions
Package Maintainers

7. $> whoami
Skill level needed
n00bs
to
L33t haxor
to
professionals

8. Automating build related process
Get latest code
Build it
Package it
Deploy it
Test and analyze it

9. Integrated Information
Comments on commits
Links to the related bugs/tickets
Source code changes
Trends
– Graphed build time
– Weather forecast of build stability
History
– Statistics
– Console output
– Build artifacts

10. How do I get it started?
Quickly :)
$> wget http://hudson-ci.org/latest/hudson.war
$> java -jar hudson.war [--help] [--daemon]
$> firefox http://localhost:8080/

11. How do I get it started?
Quickly :)
$> wget http://hudson-ci.org/latest/hudson.war
$> java -jar hudson.war [--help] [--daemon]
$> firefox http://localhost:8080/
Start playing first,
then customize to meet your needs

12. How do I get it started?
Standalone (default port 8080)
as a limited user
as an init daemon
java applet
within an servlet engine like
apache-tomcat

13. Source code integration
svn
cvs
local file system
or install plugins (git, perforce, bzr, etc.)

14. Build Steps
Shell ( sha-bang if you want )
apache-ant targets
maven targets
windows batch
or install plugins (rake, python, scons, etc.)

15. Options
Scheduling
Publishing of Artifacts
Maven
plugins
● SCP
● FTP
Build order
Package chains
Testing sequences

16. Can it whistle while it twurks?
Distributed Builds
Extendability
Multiple Build Environments
Integration

17. Distributed Builds
Multiple Nodes
– Platform Independent Slaves
– PXE boot
– Virtual machines
distcc
icecream

18. Extendability
240+ plugins point and click ready
and super API's to write your own

19. Multiple Build Environments
● Globally available build tools
● Job level environments

20. Integration
IDE (netbeans, eclipse)
Bug tracking
Bugzilla (default)
Pluginable
● Jira
● Redmine
● Mantis
● trac

21. WORK IT!
Architecture
Notifications
Rights and Access

22. Architecture
Single machine or many
Scalable on servers,
but easy to repurpose unused
machines

23. Talk to me
RSS
email
twitter
IRC
Jabber

24. Rights and Access
Open (no users)
LDAP
Unix users/groups
Plugins for
ActiveDirectory
Mysql database of users

25. Rights and Access
Everyone can do everything
Only logged users can manage
Matrices of rights (Global or Project)

26. Recap
● What is it?
● Why would I want it, or anything like it?
● How do I get it going?
● Can it whistle while it twurks?
● WORK IT!

27. Questions?

28. Links
Official site - http://hudson-ci.org/
Documentation (wiki) - http://wiki.hudson-ci.org/
apache-tomcat - http://tomcat.apache.org/
hudson-eclipse - http://code.google.com/p/hudson-eclipse/
Kohsuke Kawaguchi's blog - http://kohsuke.org/
$> wget http://hudson-ci.org/latest/hudson.war
$> java -jar hudson.war [--help]
$> firefox http://localhost:8080/