Atlassian's Bamboo shoots builds to the cloud
March 9, 2009 —
For developers working under tight deadlines, having a cloud system chip with its own processing power would be a great help. To this end, Atlassian announced today that its continuous integration server, Bamboo, can link with Amazon Web Services. Bamboo can now push build queues into the Amazon cloud, taking advantage of the horsepower available therein.
To acknowledge this new use case for Amazon Web Services, Atlassian has rechristened Bamboo as Elastic Bamboo. Ken Olofsen, product marketing manager for developer tools at Atlassian, said that Elastic Bamboo can help save time for teams working against the clock. Toward the end of a release cycle, he said, build queues can stretch out beyond the norms, forcing developers and testers to sit around waiting for their binaries.
Existing Bamboo customers will see Elastic Bamboo come down the pipe as version 2.2. The base price for the software is still US$1,200, said Olofsen.
In addition to purchasing a Bamboo license, users will also have to open their own Amazon Web Services account.
Because Elastic Bamboo uses Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud to process those builds, teams can cut down wait times in a crunch, said Olofsen. He didn't have any numbers yet on time savings, even though the internal teams at JIRA are now using Elastic Bamboo for their own builds. But he did say that teams building a development environment from scratch will be the most likely to benefit.
“I think one of the big value propositions is for smaller teams who have a hard time procuring servers. They're going to see value and scale instantly,” said Olofsen. He stated that opening an Amazon Web Services account on a company credit card is faster and cheaper than going through the enterprise bureaucracy of procuring new servers.
For now, the Elastic Bamboo cloud can only handle a Fedora virtual machine, mixed with JDK 6, and coordinated with Ant or Maven. Olofsen said that, in the future, there will be other build environments available and that Atlassian could construct new virtual machines for use with Elastic Bamboo on customer request.
It remains to be seen if Elastic Bamboo can bring cloud computing into the build process, however. Olofsen admitted that build times are heavily dependent on the type of project being built.
“The tricky thing is that, depending on the cost of your existing hardware and the range of pricing on Amazon,” the cost and money savings can be subjective, said Olofsen. Still, he remained confident that teams with severe shortages of build hardware would find Amazon's clouds warm and comforting.
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