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Get more out of Jenkins Manage large jobs, RBAC and other with Nectar May 25th, 2011 Stephen Connolly Architect, CloudBees, Inc.

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•  The slides will be made available as well as a link to the replay of this webinar.

•  Links will be sent in an email after the webinar has finished (2-3 days).

Housekeeping


Overview What we will be covering today


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•  Handling large numbers of jobs •  Scaling jobs / using existing infrastructure •  Security •  Backup •  Other plugins

Overview


CloudBees Who are we and what we can do for you?


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About CloudBees


Our Mission

Strategy

Become the leading Pla0orm as a Service (PaaS) for Java™

Why We’re Different

CloudBees services the complete lifecycle of Cloud applica>on development and deployment. No Servers. No Virtual Machines. No IT.

§  Nectar – CloudBees Pro version of Jenkins §  DEV@cloud – Cloud Services for Developers §  RUN@cloud – FricAonless runAme PaaS for Java apps

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CloudBees Jenkins Solutions


Professional support from the Experts

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CloudBees’ Pro version of Jenkins proprietary add-ons, stable release cycle


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Self-service “Jenkins as a Service” pay-as-you-go public cloud

DEV@cloud



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Self-Service “Jenkins as a Service” for Enterprises



Self-service “Jenkins as a Service” pay-as-you-go public cloud DEV@cloud

DEV@cloud Private Edition

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•  Handling large numbers of jobs – Folders plugin – Job templating

•  Scaling jobs / using existing infrastructure •  Security •  Backup •  Other plugins

Overview


Handling large numbers of jobs Folders plugin


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•  Create just like jobs •  Acts as a container

•  Select custom icon •  Restrict job types •  Specify environment

variables for all jobs in the folder

Folders plugin


Demo Folders plugin


Handling large numbers of jobs Job Templates


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•  Define templates of your jobs / build steps / publishers –  Fix/infer/hide some

parameters –  Expose the rest in

terms that make sense in your domain

–  No coding involved. All from UI

Job Templating


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•  Change the template and all instances are updated at once

•  Control visibility of plugins at fine-grained levels

Plugin currently in Beta will be GA for Nectar customers soon

Job Templating


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ü Handling large numbers of jobs •  Scaling jobs / using existing infrastructure

– VMware auto-scale plugin •  Security •  Backup •  Other plugins

Overview


Scaling jobs / using existing infrastructure VMware auto-scale plugin


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•  Configure pools of “identical” VMs

•  These pools can be used as a Cloud

•  Nectar can start/stop the VMs as required

•  Can revert to snapshots for “clean” build environment

Leverage slaves from VMware ESX / vCenter


Demo VMware auto-scale plugin


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ü Handling large numbers of jobs ü Scaling jobs / using existing infrastructure •  Security

– RBAC – RBAC and Folders – White list / black list

•  Backup •  Other plugins

Overview


Security Role Based Access Control Plugin


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•  Roles defined in Nectar •  External Groups from LDAP / AD /

Atlassian Crowd / etc •  Local Groups defined in Nectar

–  Configure Roles in Local Groups –  Manage membership in Local Groups

•  Users / other Local Groups / External Groups

•  Role filtering to restrict inheritance

Multiple layers of configuration


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What are all the new icons for? Icon What is it What is it for

User Users of Nectar

Group Defined within Nectar

External group Defined in LDAP / AD / etc

System identity Anonymous / Authenticated

Role A set of permissions

Pinned role A role tied to a specific object


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1.  Plan out your roles 2.  Enable security 3.  Add the roles 4.  Save 5.  Define Groups 6.  Remove Admin

permissions from Authenticated Role

7.  Save

Configuring


Demo Setting up RBAC


Security Role Based Access Control Plugin & Folders Plugin


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Root

Folder A Job 1

Job 2

Folder B

Job 1

Job 2

Job 3

Groups and roles are inherited


Devs Dev

Dev Folder A Devs

Have Dev role if in

Devs group or

Folder A Devs group

Have Dev role if in

Devs group

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Root

Folder A Job 1

Job 2

Folder B

Job 1

Job 2

Job 3

Pinned roles are not inherited


Devs Dev

Dev Folder A Devs

Have Dev role if in Folder A

Devs group

Nobody has Dev role

Demo Using Folders with RBAC


Security Role Based Access Control Plugin & Filtering


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Root

Folder A Job 1

Job 2

Folder B

Job 1

Job 2

Job 3

Roles can be filtered


Devs Dev

Dev Folder A Devs

Have Dev role if in Folder A

Devs group

Have Dev role if in

Devs group

Demo Secret projects using Filtering and RBAC


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ü Handling large numbers of jobs ü Scaling jobs / using existing infrastructure ü Security •  Backup

– Backup plugin •  Other plugins

Overview


Backup Backup plugin


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Create a backup job Configure what to back up

Backup plugin


Demo Backup plugin


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ü Handling large numbers of jobs ü Scaling jobs / using existing infrastructure ü Security ü Backup •  Other plugins

– Wiki text

Overview


Other plugins Wiki-text plugin


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•  Enable security. •  Select the Markup

formatter from: –  Confluence –  MediaWiki –  Textile –  Trac –  Twiki

•  Use the formatting

Wiki-text plugin


Demo Wiki-text plugin


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ü Handling large numbers of jobs ü Scaling jobs / using existing infrastructure ü Security ü Backup ü Other plugins

Overview


Support Nectar


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•  Releases every 6 months. •  Supported for 18 months. •  Patches as required •  Plugins supported for life of underlying

release •  Support all plugins •  Nectar 10.10 and Nectar 11.04 released

Nectar


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