I am really excited for this. Every time I've attempted to get things setup correctly with jenkins I've ended up changing permissions everywhere, having to re-install environments for the jenkins user and just doing all kinds of extra work. Perhaps that was a little bit of Ubuntu's madness mixed in but its hard to believe my experience is unique.

Maybe its because I was trying to setup a deploy step after testing but it shouldn't have been that hard...

EDIT: That said I want to be convinced otherwise, or be pointed in the direction of a better way to do it. In the mean time I've been using heroku for one off apps and planning on moving to a vps. I would like a similar setup as heroku. Its hard to go back to manual pushes/pulls/restarts.

You're completely right. I mean, I could just setup a git server instead of using Github. I could just use a VM instead of Heroku/EngineYard/BlueBox/etc. I could just roll my own analytics instead of Gaug.es/Google/Woopra/etc.

And I could just setup my own jenkins server instead of using travis.

But I value my time and sanity.

Or you just use Cloudbees' DEV@cloud..

This is great news for Travis! Congrats to Josh and his crew.

Now, if you can't wait for private builds, come check out Tddium: www.tddium.com

We support private CI with automatic parallelism. Get your 35 minute build running in under 10 with no special setup. We also support that same acceleration before you push by letting you start test runs from your local workstation.

We've been open to the public since November, and we've run over 1,500,000 test scripts for our happy customers. We're also available as a Heroku Add-On.

It is, we hope that everyone will use CI in the (near) future, doesn't matter if it's a hosted service or not.

hahaha, thanks Jay, and nice plug ;)

Remember the good old days which it was considered slightly distasteful to pitch your product in another product's launch? It seems that time has been and gone, so with apologies to cookiestack and listrophy:

We're building http://CircleCI.com: a zero configuration, continuous integration and deployment service. Currently in private beta, email [email protected] for an invite and some personalized service.

I look forward to seeing jay, josh and all the others in our launch thread ;)

It is nice that CI is getting more attention lately. We take it as market validation for our product (http://builda.me).

Good luck guys.

All you need is www.jenkins-ci.org

and 512MB of RAM, minimum.

I'll second this. I tried setting one up on an Amazon micro instance, but in the end I had to use a small instance instead. Jenkins needs a lot of resources for that it does.

In my experience, micro instances get throttled pretty harshly if the cpu bursts for very long. I think a CI instance wouldn't be the best fit for micro.

We've been using buildbot, it requires barely any resources at all.

zing!