Modernizing Continuous Integration infrastructure to a more scalable and fault resilient solution

Nalys Mission

The mission existed out of a redesign of the existing CI infrastructure to decrease build time and increase maintainability and scalability of the performed builds.

About The Project

Project Challenges

• The old build server was plainly out of date. There was no master-slave architecture and it had become a mix of deprecated and unmanageable plugins. This led to an unresponsive GUI, long build times and security issues.

• Over time builds became more complex which congested the server, because of the blocking nature of its architecture.

• Build job configurations were not traceable and everything had to be managed through the GUI where no history or logs where recorded of those changes.

• Changes could be made by anyone and could potentially lead to bugs with almost no possibility of reversion.

Nalys solution

The solution consists of a couple of measures: