adoptium / adoptium/infrastructure

Investigate use of jclouds for on-demand infrastructure

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Description

See if we can leverage https://jclouds.apache.org/ to dynamically allocate Jenkins nodes for use by longer running jobs, and container testing.

Related:
1) https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/JClouds+Plugin
2) @karianna mentioned the security team has recommendations related to this type of infra model, which will be shared at some point.

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

Research direction

Start with the jclouds website and the linked JClouds Plugin wiki page, then examine how the infrastructure repository provisions Jenkins nodes. Determine whether dynamic allocation supports longer-running jobs and container testing, and document the feasibility plus the security team's recommendations when they are available.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Domain
ci-cd, infrastructure
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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