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Selective Synching Across two (or more) BF Instances

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Jeffrey Gordon (96●13●10) | asked Jun 15 '11, 8:27 a.m.
We have two distinct Build Forge instances in our environment. Different application teams are assigned to one or the other for all of their projects to do builds, etc. We do, however, have a set of common libraries we provide for consistent integration with a number of tools.

The problem we are trying to solve is keeping the two instances in sync with respect to this common set of libraries and, of course, any associated environments, log filters, etc. One of our engineers has suggested doing selective replication of the backend DBs (oracle for us). This seems both tricky and dangerous to manipulate the DB without Build Forge's "knowledge". Anyone think this is a good/bad idea?

Has anyone solved this particular issue and would you be willing to share your general approach. I'm sure it can be solved with the services API but this will take a lot of code. Just want to be sure we start down the best path.

--Jeff

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Brent Ulbricht (2.5k●1●1) | answered Jun 15 '11, 10:31 p.m.
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We have two distinct Build Forge instances in our environment. Different application teams are assigned to one or the other for all of their projects to do builds, etc. We do, however, have a set of common libraries we provide for consistent integration with a number of tools.

The problem we are trying to solve is keeping the two instances in sync with respect to this common set of libraries and, of course, any associated environments, log filters, etc. One of our engineers has suggested doing selective replication of the backend DBs (oracle for us). This seems both tricky and dangerous to manipulate the DB without Build Forge's "knowledge". Anyone think this is a good/bad idea?

Has anyone solved this particular issue and would you be willing to share your general approach. I'm sure it can be solved with the services API but this will take a lot of code. Just want to be sure we start down the best path.

--Jeff


Hi Jeff,

I was curious if you've tried or thought about using the export/import utilities for the libraries. By setting various options with bfexport/bfimport, you can have it drag along the environments and filters associated with the libraries.

Brent Ulbricht
RTC Build Lead
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Jeffrey Gordon (96●13●10) | answered Jun 15 '11, 10:40 p.m.
We have two distinct Build Forge instances in our environment. Different application teams are assigned to one or the other for all of their projects to do builds, etc. We do, however, have a set of common libraries we provide for consistent integration with a number of tools.

The problem we are trying to solve is keeping the two instances in sync with respect to this common set of libraries and, of course, any associated environments, log filters, etc. One of our engineers has suggested doing selective replication of the backend DBs (oracle for us). This seems both tricky and dangerous to manipulate the DB without Build Forge's "knowledge". Anyone think this is a good/bad idea?

Has anyone solved this particular issue and would you be willing to share your general approach. I'm sure it can be solved with the services API but this will take a lot of code. Just want to be sure we start down the best path.

--Jeff


Hi Jeff,

I was curious if you've tried or thought about using the export/import utilities for the libraries. By setting various options with bfexport/bfimport, you can have it drag along the environments and filters associated with the libraries.

Brent Ulbricht
RTC Build Lead

My concern with export/import is that it doesn't handle snapshots properly.
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Brent Ulbricht (2.5k●1●1) | answered Jun 16 '11, 9:26 a.m.
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My concern with export/import is that it doesn't handle snapshots properly.


Another curiosity, any thoughts about moving to one Build Forge instance?

Brent Ulbricht
RTC Build Lead

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