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Jenkins/Connecting JIPP to an external slave
The Jenkins (JIPP) instances hosted by the Eclipse Foundation are located on a private, non-routable network that can only establish HTTP/S connections to the Internet. To connect your JIPP to an external slave, you'll need to perform some SSH wizardry:
*NIX and SSH slaves
- On your JIPP, create a job that will only run this shell script once. Edit as required.
ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "CBI genie" -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa.cbi -N "" chmod 600 ~/.ssh/id_rsa.cbi.pub echo "Adding pub key to authorized_keys file to log into build.eclipse.org" cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.cbi.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys echo "Copy this key to your remote server's ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file" cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.cbi.pub echo "Creating config" echo "" >> ~/.ssh/config echo "Host build.eclipse.org" >> ~/.ssh/config echo "StrictHostKeyChecking no" >> ~/.ssh/config echo "Host external-slave" >> ~/.ssh/config echo "StrictHostKeyChecking no" >> ~/.ssh/config echo "IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa.cbi" >> ~/.ssh/config echo "PubkeyAuthentication yes" >> ~/.ssh/config echo "ServerAliveInterval 60" >> ~/.ssh/config echo "ProxyCommand ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.cbi build.eclipse.org netcat %h 22" >> ~/.ssh/config chmod 600 ~/.ssh/config echo echo "Finished setting up SSH config" cat ~/.ssh/config
- Copy the public key that appears in the console to the authorized_keys file of the remote server, as instructed.
- In Jenkins' management, create a new slave node. Choose the option to "Launch slave via execution of command on Master".
- Use this command, replacing (projectname) with the name of your project and username with the external username. Sadly, I cannot get bash ~ or $HOME here. If you want to make sure the slave jar is always the same version as the slave, make sure you use the slave jar available from your JIPP instance.
ssh -C -i /opt/public/hipp/homes/genie.(projectname)/.ssh/id_rsa.cbi username@external-slave "wget -qO slave.jar https://ci.eclipse.org/cbi/jnlpJars/slave.jar ; java -jar slave.jar"
Windows via jnlp
To be determined, see bug 490701