What does it take to build a hosted CI?

Abstract:

With hosted CI very quickly becoming the new hotness, what do you think goes into building a simple hosted CI solution? We as DevOps spend quite some time in configuring a CI server its agents and maintaining them. This talk aims at simplifying this setup and maintenance process by giving some insights of setting up a hosted CI and maintaining the build servers of multiple customers. Tentative sub-topics are:

• the basics of hosted CI

  • Significance and advantages over traditional self-hosted CI servers.

• a suitable architecture

  • A simple build server with a container based virtualisation and a web interface for customers.

• different considerations/challenges

  • Security
  • Deployments
  • Scaling and scaling problems.

Speaker: Akshay Karle, ThoughtWorks