[Buildbot-devel] Disposable VM Slaves?

[Gary Poster]

On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 08:14 -0800, Aleksandr Milewski wrote:
> Does anyone have a good solution for running buildslaves on disposable  
> (immutable/read-only) VMs?
> 
> It came up at Allmydata in the context of installer testing, but I've  
> had two or three conversations in the last month or so where it would  
> be desirable to have a build happen on a pristine VM.
> 
> My thoughts were along the lines of having a 'controller' buildslave  
> that responds to changes by starting a new VM from an immutable image,  
> and a buildslave inside that VM that starts at boot, connects, and  
> finds work.
> 
> Cleanup at the other end is a little less clear, so I'm looking for  
> suggestions there.

It sounds like you might be interested in the EC2LatentBuildSlave I
added recently.  It's in Dustin's master branch on github.  If you don't
want to use EC2, you can subclass the abstract implementation
(AbstractLatentBuildSlave) and follow the basic pattern.

Gary