Mobile CI at Etsy

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Etsy runs continuous integration for mobile on a Jenkins cluster using 350 build slaves (LXC containers for web) and a rack of mac minis racked up for iOS/Android builds, with Chef provisioning and a device lab of many physical phones and tablets. Every push triggers lint, unit and instrumentation tests; functional tests run via Cucumber/Calabash and a third‑party device farm but are flaky so they don’t block merges. Release builds still require a dedicated iMac and manual App Store steps; automation is about 98% automated.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:33About Etsy
3. 1:20Mobile apps
4. 3:09Internal builds
5. 4:19GitHub Enterprise
6. 5:19Commandline tool
7. 6:17Jenkins agent
8. 7:19tooling
9. 8:09Chef
10. 10:58Dashboard
11. 11:37Current pain points

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