On Oct 25, 2009, at 9:50 AM, exarkun@twistedmatrix.com wrote:
Actually setting one up in the first place might take a bit longer, since it involves installing the necessary software and making sure everything's set up right, but the actual slave configuration itself is one command:
buildbot create-slave <path> <master address> <slave name> <slave password>
I have written a Fabric script for the distutils-buildbot project (on bitbucket, under Tarek) that puts everything necessary up onto an Ubuntu server, runs all the build steps, and fires up the buildbot. Obviously it will have to be modified to correctly configure other types of servers but the implementation should be fairly trivial for someone who could have done it by hand in the first place. Once it's done, it's in the script and may require an occasional tweak but not much more. The next step is to have the slaves themselves created in the cloud, fired up and then report to the mother ship that they're available. This last step is the one that doesn't seem to be supported by the current system. Thanks, S