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Build server: Recycle IIS application pool on remote server without a VPN connection

I have a build server (Windows Server 2008) set up to pull down code from our SVN repository and build the web applications we develop. My current process involves using WinSCP to perform a remote sync that sends the updated files to our production…
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Recommended Development / Build Server RAID Configuration

I've done a lot of research on RAID configurations; Wikipedia, questions here on serverfault, articles, on random websites: RAID5 vs RAID10; Build Server Capacity Planning. From my understanding, it seems a lot of people put the OS on RAID 1 and the…
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Building on Idle Servers

I'm doing a build on my build server that can take advantage of multi-core processors, though I only have two - so it takes about 4 to 5 hours. There are several machines that us developers use for these builds in the lab, but most of the time they…
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Alternative to Jenkins Extended Choice Parameter plugin?

The Jenkins "Extended Choice Parameter" plugin (https://plugins.jenkins.io/extended-choice-parameter/) has been marked "vulnerable" on the Jenkins website for some time. Does Jenkins have a similar plugin for dynamically populating menus, but that's…
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Cloud build is failing to connect to npm and install packages. Network error

Step #0: [2/4] Fetching packages... Step #0: info There appears to be trouble with your network connection. Retrying... The retrying step happens X times until I cancel. It worked once after 457s, but failed because this also happens inside…
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Jenkins: Difference between job and workspace/job?

In most recent version of Jenkins on centos 7.9, what is the difference between /var/lib/jenkins/jobs/ and /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/? They both look like they house the same thing (artifact of a build), but is the former more for archival, while…
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Best configuration for frequent short lived EC2 instances, eg a build server

We have a EC2 use case where we want to build our code on EC2, but these builds are infrequent. Given that builds may take around 5-60 minutes and we build something 2-5 times a day, what is the best approach balancing cost and convienence? Should…
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Is it possible to deploy a iOS app using Google Cloud Build?

I have been using CircleCI to build the iOS app with the latest macOS Container Xcode 11.3.1 (Build 11C505). Currently looking to use the GCP ecosystem for future builds, but can't find a way to use macOS as the build server. Looks like I am stuck…
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VM Reset not picking up new container image

Thank you for taking the time to read this. We have a build trigger connected to our bitbucket repo that creates a docker container of our server and stores it as an image in the Container Registry on the Google Cloud Console. We also have a Virtual…
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Unable to pull AWS image for Python 2.7.12

My CloudFormation template contains the following resource definition: MyBuildResource: Type: AWS::CodeBuild::Project Properties: Name: !Sub ${AWS::StackName}-my-build-resource ServiceRole: !Ref MyServiceRole Artifacts: Type:…
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How to trigger automated build in TFS 2017 only when an artifact is changed?

I have installed TFS 2017. I want to setup the TFS in such a way that whenever any developer checks in code, an automated build is triggered for that solution only. My application contains many solutions.
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Controlling Sccm using CLI

Is there a way to do the actions done from the SCCM console through a command line interface or powershell interface? I am talking mainly about the creation of task sequences and installation packages. The idea is to incorporate this in a…
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Buildbot access restriction configuration

I'm trying to install buildbot so I can perform automatic stuff like building my latex documents and running unit tests. I wan't it to be available online, so I'm doing it on a VPS (Digital Ocean). I've installed and the web interface is up and the…
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CruiseControl.Net - not able to see Project Statistics

I've made a reinstallation of the buildserver and can no longer see the standard graphs of project statistics. The error message shown is "Missing/Invalid statistics reports. Please check if you have enabled the Statistics Publisher, and statistics…
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Best practices on patching build servers

We have a set of Linux servers that our developers use to compile software for our products we sell. We are currently in a stand off between our network security people saying the servers need to be patched, and the developers stating that patching…
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