Buildbot and EC2

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Project Name

Buildbot and EC2

Project Description

The BuildBot is software for automatically building and testing other software. EC2 is Amazon's "Elastic Compute Cloud", a service that lets you run Virtual Machines on Amazon's computing grid using a web API. It would be awesome if BuildBot had an EC2 module, and could spawn Virtual Machines on-demand to perform tasks. Conveniently, BuildBot is written in Python, and there's a Python library for interfacing with EC2.

References: Amazon EC2 Basics For Python Programmers

Project Leader(s)

Adam Delyea

Project Contributor(s)

Dominic Baranski

Project Details

Release 0.1

   Buildbot and EC2/0.1

Release 0.2

   Buildbot and EC2/0.2

Release 0.3

   Buildbot and EC2/0.3

Release 0.4

   Buildbot and EC2/0.4

Release 0.5

   Buildbot and EC2/0.5

Tasks

Task Details Priority Contributors Status Target Completed Link(s)
Downloadable Try Builds Allow users to download their completed builds Medium Adam Delyea
In Progress
03/02/08  
Try Server Apache Authentication Authenticate users using the Apache config High Adam Delyea
In Progress
03/02/08  
Seneca EC2 Account Set up an account for Seneca on Amazon's EC2 Service High Adam Delyea
In Progress
03/02/08  
Try Server @ Seneca Port Try Server from external server to internal servers High Adam Delyea David Humphrey
In Progress

- Dave is in the process of setting up access to the Mozilla@Seneca cluster
01/02/08   Mozilla@Seneca Cluster Administration
Try Server Start a Try Server on a Linux machine. High Adam Delyea Done 14/01/08 14/01/08 Mozilla Try Server
EC2 on Try Server Make the Try Server use EC2 to spawn build slaves. High Adam Delyea Done 14/01/08 14/01/08
Define new build step Add a new build step to the build master config file. The build step will be in an external file and imported into the build master config file. High Adam Delyea Done     Writing New Build Steps
Connect To EC2 using Python Utilize the EC2 python library to connect to an account on the EC2 network. Once connected, display some information about the users account to prove it's actually connecting. High Adam Delyea Done    
Start new instances Allow Buildbot to spawn an instance on demand. This could possibly be a function called right before the build slave list is populated, and would pass back an array of build slaves. High Adam Delyea Done      
Add new instances to build slave list Allow newly created EC2 instances to be added to the build slave list.

After looking more closely at how the buildslave is created, this goal doesn't make any sense, since this is not really how the buildslave list works.

Cut Adam Delyea Cut      
Start a new build on an EC2 instance Allow Buildbot to successfully start a build using a build slave on an EC2 instance High Adam Delyea Done      
Load a script on startup in Linux Make it possible to have a script load when Linux starts High Adam Delyea Done      
Testing People needed to download the revisions and test them to make sure it works in different environments. Note, this will require you to have your own EC2 account. Expired NEEDED! ***
Dominic Baranski
Expired      
Different Builds Need different projects to try and build, to make sure it works to build projects other than Mozilla Expired NEEDED! ***
Dominic Baranski
Expired      
Build Mozilla using an EC2 Instance Allow Buildbot to successfully build mozilla using a build slave on an EC2 instance High Adam Delyea Done      
Complete Documentation Medium Adam Delyea In Progress      
Generic EC2 instance for Buildbot Slaves Making a generic EC2 Instance for Buildbot Medium Adam Delyea Done      
Startup Scripts for making your own EC2 instances Medium Adam Delyea Done      

Contributions


 
*** Would you like to contribute? Well here's an excellent opportunity for you to do just that! Feel free to e-mail me at <awdelyea@gmail.com>
 

Project Resources

Project News

For a less formal, and more up-to-date view on whats happening, see the BLOG.

2007-09-17: Project claimed!

2007-10-11: Found a python EC2 library that has all of the functions I will need for interacting with EC2. Just need to write a custom build step to run these library functions.

2007-10-12: Release v0.1 is complete and available for download.

2007-10-12: Release v0.2 loosely defined. More detail to follow.

2007-11-17: Release v0.2 is complete and available for download: can start an instance and start an EC2BuildSlave

2007-11-21: Release v0.2.1 is complete and available for download: now to include variable EC2 users, and instances, and DNS'

2007-12-13: Release v0.3 is complete and available for download: easier to install and setup, can use to build projects now

2008-12-14: Release v0.4 Defined. In the process of getting accounts and machines for Try Server Farm.