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I was wondering if anyone out there is doing their software builds using something like Amazon EC2. I was thinking of trying to move our assemblies to this environment. Now our assemblies are serial, but only because we do not have enough computers for parallel operation of all components. Using EC2, we could create 50 or so computers, run them in massive parallel for several minutes, and then send the assembly results back to our website. As soon as we finish, we can close or destroy the machines. This will save us a lot of time, since the neck of the bottle is really an assembly, not the size of the results.

Does anyone else do this? Can you offer any advice?

Answer 1

My company runs our build system on EC2; we have much less settings than the one you are talking about, but we have an assembly controller instance that runs Hudson , which runs assemblies on a separate, clean instance, and then distributes the assembly artifacts to our repository server (which is also located on EC2 )

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