ReleaseEngineering/How To/Setup a buildbot master

This page describes how to set-up a new Buildbot Master.

Production masters

For buildbot masters that are intended to be doing production builds, tests, etc.

Hardware

• Current policy is one buildbot master instance per VM
• 64-bit guest
• 2 virtual CPUs
• 6 GB RAM
• 6 GB swap
• 20GB root partition

OS

• Install CentOS 5.5
• Install puppet
  • Configure to point to master-puppet1.build.mozilla.org

Support files, Wikis

Update production-masters.json in tools and the master list, if appropriate

Puppet manifests

• Make sure your masters are listed in buildmaster-production.pp

IT-related things

• Nagios
  • PING
  • Swap
  • avg load
  • buildbot
  • disk - /
  • disk - /builds
• Mysql access to the DB server
• Add master to Tinderbox whitelist

SSH Keys

• Copy production ssh keys (for ffxbld and trybld) to ~/.ssh.
• Make sure you can ssh to ffxbld@dm-pvtbuild01.mozilla.org and ffxbld@stage.mozilla.org

Personal / development masters

See ReleaseEngineering/How To/Setup Personal Development Master