Manage Jenkins with Nectar

Get more out of Jenkins
Manage large jobs, RBAC and other with Nectar

May 25th, 2011

Stephen Connolly
Architect, CloudBees, Inc.

©2011 CloudBees, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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Overview
What we will be covering today


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


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


About CloudBees
Our
Mission
Become
the
leading
Pla0orm
as
a
Service
(PaaS)
for
Java™

Why

We’re
CloudBees
services
the
complete
lifecycle
of
Cloud

Diﬀerent
applica>on
development
and
deployment.

No
Servers.
No
Virtual
Machines.
No
IT.

Strategy
§  Nectar
–
CloudBees
Pro
version
of
Jenkins

§  DEV@cloud
–
Cloud
Services
for
Developers

§  RUN@cloud
–
FricAonless

runAme
PaaS
for
Java
apps


CloudBees Jenkins Solutions
Professional support from the Experts


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



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

DEV@cloud





DEV@cloud Self-Service “Jenkins as a Service”
Private Edition for Enterprises

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




Overview
•  Handling large numbers of jobs
–  Folders plugin
–  Job templating
•  Security
•  Backup


Handling large numbers of
jobs
Folders plugin


Folders plugin
•  Create just like jobs
•  Acts as a container

•  Select custom icon
•  Restrict job types
•  Specify environment
variables for all jobs
in the folder


Demo
Folders plugin


Handling large numbers of
jobs
Job Templates


Job Templating
•  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
•  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


Overview
ü Handling large numbers of jobs
–  VMware auto-scale plugin
•  Security
•  Backup


Scaling jobs / using existing infrastructure
VMware auto-scale plugin


Leverage slaves from VMware ESX / vCenter

•  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


Demo
VMware auto-scale plugin


Overview
ü Scaling jobs / using existing infrastructure
•  Security
–  RBAC
–  RBAC and Folders
–  White list / black list
•  Backup


Security
Role Based Access Control Plugin


Multiple layers of configuration
•  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


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


Configuring
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


Demo
Setting up RBAC


Security
Role Based Access Control Plugin & Folders Plugin


Groups and roles are inherited
Job
1
Have Dev
role if in

Folder
A
Devs group
or

Job
2

Folder A
Devs group

Folder A Dev
Root

Job
1

Devs

Devs Have Dev
Dev
Folder
B
Job
2
role if in
Devs group

Job
3


Pinned roles are not inherited
Job
1
Have Dev

Folder
A
role if in
Folder A

Job
2

Devs group

Folder A Dev
Root

Job
1

Devs

Devs Dev
Folder
B
Job
2

Nobody has
Dev role

Job
3


Demo
Using Folders with RBAC


Security
Role Based Access Control Plugin & Filtering


Roles can be filtered
Job
1
Have Dev

Folder
A
role if in
Folder A

Job
2

Devs group

Folder A Dev
Root

Job
1

Devs

Devs Have Dev
Dev
Folder
B
Job
2
role if in
Devs group

Job
3


Demo
Secret projects using Filtering and RBAC


Overview
ü Security
•  Backup
–  Backup plugin


Backup
Backup plugin


Backup plugin
Create a backup job Configure what to back up


Demo
Backup plugin


Overview
ü Security
ü Backup
–  Wiki text


Other plugins
Wiki-text plugin


Wiki-text plugin
•  Enable security.
•  Select the Markup
formatter from:
–  Confluence
–  MediaWiki
–  Textile
–  Trac
–  Twiki
•  Use the formatting


Demo
Wiki-text plugin


Overview
ü Security
ü Backup
ü Other plugins


Support
Nectar


Nectar
•  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


CloudBees Resources
•  CloudBees Resources Page
–  http://www.cloudbees.com/support.cb

•  Try DEV@cloud & RUN@cloud
–  https://grandcentral.cloudbees.com/account/signup

•  CloudBees Eclipse Plugin
–  http://cloudbees.com/eclipse-plugin.cb

•  DEV@cloud Private Edition Beta
Program (DEV@cloud for private clouds)
–  http://www.cloudbees.com/dev-pe.cb


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