Provisioning a Hudson CI server

As I wrote about before, CI in a Box is one of the easiest ways to get up and running with Continuous Integration– in fact, if you don’t believe me, check out the CI in a Box tutorial video. As you’ll see, CI in a Box makes setting up a Hudson CI server practically a breeze by leveraging Amazon’s EC2; what’s more, the video quickly sets up an SVN project that contains an Ant build (don’t worry, CI in a Box supports Maven as well!).

CI in a Box is an Amazon machine image or AMI — it’s an Ubuntu Server running Hudson and Java 6– the instance already has Ant 1.7.1 and Maven 2 installed. With this AMI running, all you need to do is configure a Hudson Job — point it to your project and you’re done! Using CI in a Box will cost about 8 cents an hour, but it’s even cheaper if you reserve an instance through Amazon.

If you think working with EC2 is hip, then have a look at how to set up CouchDB via EC2 or check out these copasetic articles, in which EC2 is leveraged for deploying Java web applications:

• “Easy EC2“
• “You can borrow EC2 too“

As you can see, EC2 makes working with the cloud…well…a breeze! Can you dig it, man?

Looking to spin up Continuous Integration quickly? Check out www.ciinabox.com.