Deployment

The simplest form of testbot deployment is on development workstations because you already have an environment with everything needed to get your tests to run. When using server resources it's often a good idea to automate installing and updating. I plan to add information on how I do this here. Feel free to contribute!

Optimizations

Place your runner project cache in ramdisk to speedup rsync.

 echo 'none            /tmp            tmpfs   defaults        0       0' >> /etc/fstab
 mount -a

Also see Optimizing your project.

Resources

• CloudBot for using testbot on Amazon EC2 (Benchmarks: https://gist.github.com/720660)
• Basic PXE boot server setup (more is needed to fully automate testbot deployment using this method)