Whelp, I've gone and done it. I've mounted and installed one of my SEL computers and set it up for running Jenkins!

This isn't going to be a very in-depth article, but I wanted to say that it's done. The server is mounted with a brand new switch and surge protector (no UPS for the moment, but perhaps to come in the relatively near future). They're networked back upstairs to my little IT closet, and Jenkins is waiting idly for me to push new code.

I spent Saturday mounting the server, re-routing all the networking, and setting up my modem to provide access to the servers by way of a reverse proxy. Perhaps I'll document what that is and how it works, but that might be another article.

Today I got to work standing up a few pytest projects for both selprotopy and pycev, what's exciting about this though, is the fact that they're set up now so that they can access the private resources they need for testing, but they can be kicked off by my commits and pushes to their repositories on GitHub.

So... now I can really start cranking on that code, and Jenkins can do some of my dirty work to start running the tests for me!

I want to restate that I'm very excited to be using some old SEL hardware and giving it a second lease on life. These computers are rugged, industrial machines; and I'm getting to put them to work making these projects solid. Not to mention that these projects are actually tailored to supporting SEL tech.

Yep. It's nerdy.

Yep. I'm still excited.

Yep. You guessed it; I'll surely be giving more updates moving forward!