From a79cb815ecbfa1dc83f54fe4bb7b14540b32f522 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeremy Stanley
+ Software Factory is a distribution that integrates all the + components as CentOS packages with an installer/operator named + sfconfig to manage service configuration, backup, recovery and + upgrades. The main Zuul advantages for their users are + customizable deployments and simplicity of use. The RDO project + has been using Software Factory successfully for about three + years now. The goal is to keep the same user experience from + upstream to downstream and to allow them to share + configurations, jobs, pipelines and easily run third party CI + jobs. With the addition of GitHub support to Zuul, Software + Factory can now be used without Gerrit and people are looking + into running their own gating CI/CD for GitHub organizations + with SF to use the log processing features. +
+ + Read more about Software Factory at SuperUser. + +
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+ OpenStack ended up in a situation where it wanted to keep gating
+ changes to OpenStack but have the ability to merge more than 24
+ changes a day. Running tests more quickly, or running fewer
+ tests were either not possible or less than ideal options.
+ Instead the infrastructure team set out to build a system (Zuul)
+ which could parallelize the serial testing of OpenStack.
+ Initially, Zuul was the coordinator for Jenkins and the two
+ systems worked together, and around April 2016, Jenkins was
+ replaced with an Ansible
+ + Read more about OpenStack Foundation at SuperUser. + +
+ ++ Packet Host built a community cloud to support OpenStack with + 100 concurrent VM instances each with 8 GB RAM, eight vCPUs and + 80 GB storage running on 11 bare metal servers. Working with the + OpenStack Infra team has really opened my eyes up to the + capabilities of Zuul and the frameworks they’ve put together, + says John Studarus, who helped Packet Host put it together. +
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