In this installment of the ‘from the trenches’ series I cover the use of Puppet during one of our projects. We have used Puppet to provision Jenkins instances as part of a build and deployment platform for a large organization. I discuss the problem of when Puppet overwrites user managed configuration and how we solved […]
Ansible – Example playbook to setup Jenkins slave
As mentioned in my previous post about Ansible, we will now proceed with writing an Ansible playbook. Playbooks are files containing instructions that can be processed by Ansible, they are written in yaml. For this blog post I will show you how to create a playbook that will setup a remote computer as a Jenkins […]