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Posted by Unknown on from the raining-dev-builds dept.

bellwould (11363) writes "Our CTO has asked us to move our entire dev/test platform off of shared, off-site, hardware onto Amazon, Savvis or the like. Because we don't know enough about this, we're nervous about the costs like CPU: Jenkins tasks checks-out 1M lines of source, then builds, tests and test-deploys 23 product modules 24/7; as well, several Glassfish and Tomcat instances run integration and UI tests 24/7. Disk: large databases instances packed with test and simulation data. Of course, it's all backed up too. So before we start an in-depth review of what's available, what experiences are dev shops having doing stuff like this in the cloud?"

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  1. Bamboo OnDemand by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Atlassian is already trying to push their customers in this direction. Their Bamboo OnDemand offering spins up AWS instance as needed for builds. In this case, you could still host a local Bamboo instance and use elastic remote agents.

    One thing I do like about this sort of setup is that it keeps you honest about deployment. Your build environment stands up a new instance every time your remote agent goes stale and is recovered to reduce costs.

  2. We do this by CimmerianX · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm IT for a company that does this for 95% of dev/test/qa systems. It's worked out pretty well. Most servers are spun up and then chef'ed, used, then deleted after tests/whetever are complete. We do keep our code in house. SVN/GIT/ and Jenkins along with server build farms are all in house. The cloud services are expensive, but since IT has automated the deployment process for the cloud hosts, it works out better than keeping enough hardware in house to meed all test/qa needs. Plus less hardware in house equals less admin time which is a plus for us.

  3. Re:We do by Lumpy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "cloud makes it not matter where you're working from."

    Competent IT and VPN does that as well.

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  4. Re:Your CTO is an idiot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think you're just failing to on-board the new cloud paradigm going forward.
    You probably haven't accounted for the synergized trending advantages.