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Michael Neale
Michael Neale

Reputation: 19468

Automatic hibernation of application instance on cloudbees

I have a cloudbees enterprise instance that I use for performance and automated UI testing.

The free instance (which is limited in memory) cannot support the memory or request per second that we have for testing.

I would like to have the instance automatically hibernated when I am not using it but have it wake up when requests come in. I would configure a jenkins job to wake the app up (by issuing a request) before kicking off my sauce lab based selenium jobs.

My question is how do I configure automatic hibernation? The control panel has minimum of one instance which I guess means that the one instance stays up.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 844

Answers (1)

Michael Neale
Michael Neale

Reputation: 19468

You are right - currently automatic hibernation is only for free applications. When an application is hibernated (vs stopped) then it will be automatically woken whenever someone needs to access it.

What you could do for this is to have a job set your application to hibernated, say once a day, (or at certain time of the day when you know it won't be needed). When it is needed again - you won't need to do anything - simply accessing it will cause it to be activated (woken) again - so your test script can just insure that is the case (and ideally, after a test run, set it to hibernated again).

It really depends how often the app is needed - if you can work out what points it isn't needed and trigger the hibernate off that (eg after a test run) then that is ideal (you minimise cost).

Upvotes: 2

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