Questions tagged [build-server]

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Build controller cannot start after TFS 2012 Update 1

I just updated our TFS 2012 server to Update 1 (http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/downloads) via the web downloader. The Web UI works great, SharePoint as well, the Source Control has no problems. It just seems that the build controller…
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Karma Unit Tests not able to run in Google Cloud Build with Puppeteer

I am trying to run ChromeHeadless with puppeteer to run my unit tests. However I can't launch ChromeHeadless and get the following error. 03 07 2019 03:19:25.066:INFO [karma-server]: Karma v4.1.0 server started at http://0.0.0.0:9876/ 03 07 2019…
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VSTS Private Agent build - VS Build tools installer cannot install .NET Framework 4.6.2 SDK and targeting pack

I'm trying to configure a VSTS Private Agent build. The virtual machine where I've installed everything is a Windows 2012 R2 hosted on Azure. I've installed the .NET Framework 4.6.2 and even the 4.7. There is also the IIS configured to host my web…
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How to limit access for a user within Windows

I want to allow people to build their Electron apps on a Windows environment. For me to do this, I accept jobs in via SQS and have a listener that runs the build process within a "workspace" folder. I do not want to leave myself open to a malicious…
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TFS 2017 Build agent testing connection failure

I have a problem connecting the build agent to tfs. I run the ./config from a powershell with elevated credentials and I proceed to the point where I get the prompt Testing agent connection Right after that I get An error occured while sending…
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TFS 2013: An error occurred while initializing a build for build definition (The remote name could not be resolved)

I'm trying to start a build from my TFS to my Build Controller. Both are not inside a domain or active directory. The Build Server is a virtual machine hosted in Hyper-V on the dedicated TFS machine. Now everytime I try to run a build, it gives the…
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Can't create Build Controller on other server for TFS

I'm currently working on creating a test environment on my local machine using some virtual servers: TWITCH: This server contains the real TFS Server BUILDSERVER: This server should contain the Build Agent to be used by TFS SANDBOX: This server…
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How to improve a Java build server's performance?

We are setting up a new server for integration build. The original integration server can finish the "mvn install" in 3 minutes in a Linux box. Now by moving to a Windows 2012 server on VM, it's down to 9 minutes. The "mvn test" part alone costs 7…
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How to build for new servers?

Other then just by knowing from experience, I'm sure that most of us have forgotten a thing or two when quoting, building, installing and servicing new servers for clients who have never had a server, or are just replacing and putting in a proper…
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Building a build server on an Atom Mini-ITX PC

I am planning on turning my 1.6Ghz Atom, 1GB RAM Mini-ITX PC into a build machine. I am thinking about having it build for multiple environments, so I was planning on using Virtual Box to create a VM environment. Will my machine handle multiple…
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VMWare performance for a build server - awful or wrong tests?

We are looking into virtualizing our C++ Build server(s). The main reason being that our current toolchain that we use in addition to the build itself in Visual Studio only runs properly on Windows XP (or 2003Server), and the secondary reason being…
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Build a server in KVM linux

I owned a linux server. Now there are several users want to build web services on it, but they require different enviroments. For convenience I give a KVM virtual machine root permission to each user. But obviously the linux server has only one IP.…
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CentOS Template for Server Builds

I am working on building a new virtual machine with CentOS installed on it. It takes a lot of time to setup and build servers to include all of the hardening steps, service changes, custom monitoring scripts, etc. To this end, I was curious if…
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(Linux) Python is stopped - preventing me to start a Service

I'm currently running CentOS 5.5 on my machine, and I'm trying to setup a Build Server using Django, MySQL and Apache. I have basically no experience with any of those, and I've been researching on Google every single time I encounter a new error.…
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XenServer on i7 Processors?

Was wondering if anyone is using an i7 XenServer. Didn't see anything in the HCL on the XenServer site. If you are using it how is the performance and should I build one on i7 or a older Xeon processor?
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