Installing Jenkins on an Ubuntu Amazon EC2 instance

This tutorial assumes you have already created an Amazon EC2 instance and are able to ssh to it. In our case, we used the Quick Launch Wizard to spin up a 32-bit instance of Ubuntu Server Cloud Guest 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot). Once you have a running EC2 instance you’ll need to modify the instance’s security group to open up ports 22, 80 and 443. The first thing I did was update the EC2...

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Android app build automation with Hudson

In a nutshell, Jenkins provides an easy-to-use so-called continuous integration system, making it easier for developers to integrate changes to the project, and making it easier for users to obtain a fresh build. This post assumes you have a working ci server running Hudson (or Jenkins). First download and install the Android SDK to your Hudson server. Make sure it’s in a directory...

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