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I am e PHP Developer and I have a Pi at hand, recently I was setting up a Jenkins-CI in a VM with headless raspbian. And then it hit me, What about the Pi. So my questions are:

  1. Will the Pi handle a Jenkins CI?
  2. Will it play nice as GIT server (This is dumb question, please ignore it :D)
  3. Will it be slow as a local post production server, i.e to deploy the application and run it(to copy the sources on the web server/Apache directory)
  4. What about throwing Gearman in the Mix ?

Everything will be running on a single Pi with headless raspbian within local network. Basically I do not want to have a running VM all the time.

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  • Have you considered that the Pi does not have much memory for a java based build server. Unless you are careful it wil swap to death. If gitolite is available it will work nicely as a git server.
    – Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen
    Commented Mar 10, 2014 at 21:39
  • Basically with PHP the thing is a little more effortles i think. (Just runing the unit tests, which I think is not like building Java/C or any other application, wrong?) and I do want it just to push local changes and try out the code, if it gets build - back to the IDE otherwise. Will I exhaust it too much
    – DaGhostman Dimitrov
    Commented Mar 10, 2014 at 21:42
  • Jenkins is written in Java.
    – Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen
    Commented Mar 10, 2014 at 21:44
  • my point was that the builds should not be as resource intensive as the would be, if the builds ware for Java/C/Etc. So with the overhead of jenkins the Pi should not get scared. At least that is what i think
    – DaGhostman Dimitrov
    Commented Mar 10, 2014 at 22:13
  • Well, give it a try. If you have either OpenJDK or Oracle Java installed, it is just running "java -jar jenkins.war".
    – Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen
    Commented Mar 10, 2014 at 22:41

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Not a dumb question You could set it up as a private git server http://www.instructables.com/id/GitPi-A-Private-Git-Server-on-Raspberry-Pi/

For others depends on their cpu and ram use and if its going to be slow/lag. I've run a flask based app and it wasn't much slower than on a normal server but using nginx not apache as per http://elinux.org/RPi_Nginx_Webserver and with uwsgi raspberrywebserver.com/cgiscripting/setting-up-nginx-and-uwsgi-for-cgi-scripting.html

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According to this the Raspberry Pi is unable to run Jenkins-Ci

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    java.io.IOException: No space left on device looks very solvable with a cheap USB disk drive. And the bug he raised has been closed.
    – Chris Wesseling
    Commented May 4, 2014 at 9:47
  • I don't think that's accurate with Pi 3. There are several articles on the internet to show how to do this.
    – IgorGanapolsky
    Commented Jun 21, 2016 at 1:31
  • This is non-sense. I'm running Jenkins on Rpi/Rpi2 without any problems, but using 32GB SD card with symlinked /var/lib/jenkins to other (non-root) partition which has enough space for jobs
    – rkosegi
    Commented Jul 7, 2016 at 17:19
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Probably yes you can run it. Can you use it? NO!

I've tried Teamcity (same container as Jenkins) to build Android project. i7 ~90secs, Pi II ~30 minutes

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