Sample use cases

It is always good to learn from others' experiences. The following are the use cases published by some famous organizations that can give us some idea of the hardware specification.

Netflix

In 2012, Netflix had the following configuration:

Hardware configuration:

• 2x quad core x86_64 for the Jenkins master with 26 GB RAM
• 1 Jenkins master with 700 engineers using it
• Elastic slaves with Amazon EC2 + 40 ad-hoc slaves in Netflix's data center

Work load:

• 1,600 Jenkins jobs
• 2,000 Builds per day
• 2 TB of build data

Yahoo!

In 2013, Yahoo! had the following configuration:

Hardware configuration:

• 2 x Xeon E5645 2.40GHz, 4.80GT QPI (HT enabled, 12 cores, 24 threads) with 96 GB RAM, and 1.2 TB of disk space
• 1 Jenkins master with 1,000 engineers using it
• 48 GB max heap to JVM
• $JENKINS_HOME* lives on NetApp
• 20 TB filer volume to store Jenkins job and build data
• 50 Jenkins slaves in three data centers

Workload:

• 13,000 Jenkins jobs
• 8,000 builds per day

  Note

  $JENKINS_HOME is the environment variable that...