Closed Bug 925917 Opened 12 years ago Closed 12 years ago

Support building/testing on spot EC2 instances

Categories

(Release Engineering :: General, defect)

Product:
Release Engineering
Component:
General
Platform:
x86_64
Windows 8
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 935683

People

(Reporter: taras.mozilla, Unassigned)

Details

Spot instances are usually cheaper, typically 5-10x cheaper. However they get killed sometime after the first hour if the spot price goes above our bid price. Thus our infrastructure should initially schedule jobs as spot instances and then finish them on ondemand instances if the jobs don't finish on spot instances. This will also be useful for redundancy(eg if our preferred AWS region goes down). Since EC2 is by far the most expensive part of our build(vs network, storage), we can do region-hunting to fire up cheapest available instances.
Summary: Support build on spot EC2 instances → Support building/testing on spot EC2 instances
Doing tests on spot instances first probably makes more sense. They're typically shorter jobs, and so are less painful to have to restart.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 12 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Component: General Automation → General
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