Bamboo usage: small company with many projects

[Richard Comblen]

Hi,

We are a small company (8 employees) working for various customers and using many different technologies.

For now, we are using Jenkins as Continuous Integration system.

Bamboo seems to be a great alternative, especially for its support for deployments.

Our current Jenkins setup is a master node and many slaves, e.g.

- one slave to build Javascript applications (using Grunt, Compass etc ...)

- one slave to build/test Django apps

- one slave to build/test php/Symfony apps

- one slave to build/test C/C++ apps using CMake

- ...

We want different slaves to keep the config on the master clean, and because they might have mutually exclusive requirements (e.g. different versions of DB servers, build toolchain).

We have now a setup where the slaves are lightweight containers (using https://www.docker.io/), and we are pretty happy with it.

What would be a corresponding setup using Bamboo. We can afford the 800 $ license (i.e. one remote agent), but not the more expensive ones.

Is it possible to use Bamboo with a similar setup for a reasonable price, e.g. using the 800 $ license and have a single remote agent active at a time ?

[Przemek Bruski]

You can freely start and stop your agents. Provided that only one will be connected at any time, you'll be fine.

[Richard Comblen]

Thanks for your answer. Can it be done automatically, e.g. when a job requires a given remote agent, it is activated, and disconnected after the job is done ?