Merge pull request #1981 from spryker/ThomasLehnerSpryker-patch-8

Create best-practises-jenkins-stability.md

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         url: /docs/cloud/dev/spryker-cloud-commerce-os/starting-asynchronous-commands.html
+      - title: Best practices
+        url: /docs/cloud/dev/spryker-cloud-commerce-os/best-practices/best-practices.html
+        nested:
+        - title: "Best practises: Jenkins stability"
+          url: /docs/cloud/dev/spryker-cloud-commerce-os/best-practices/best-practises-jenkins-stability.html
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docs/cloud/dev/spryker-cloud-commerce-os/best-practices/best-practices.md

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 title: Best practices
 description: Best practices for developers working on Spryker Cloud Commerce OS
 template: concept-topic-template
+last_updated: Jun, 10, 2023
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 This section contains best practices for developing and working with the Spryker Cloud Commerce OS.

docs/cloud/dev/spryker-cloud-commerce-os/best-practices/best-practises-jenkins-stability.md

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+---
+ title: "Best practises: Jenkins stability"
+ description: Improve the stability of the scheduler component.
+ template: best-practices-guide-template
+ last_updated: Jun 10, 2023
+---
+
+Jenkins fulfills the role of a scheduler in the Spryker applications. It is used to run repetitive console commands and jobs. In Spryker Cloud Commerce OS, the Jenkins instance runs the commands configured directly in its container. This means that, when you run a command like the following one, it's executed within the Jenkins container, utilizing its resources:
+
+```bash
+/vendor/bin/console queue:worker:start
+```
+
+Unlike in cloud, in a local environment, these commands are executed by a CLI container. This difference leads to some side effects where the same code and actions work fine in the local development environment but fail when deployed to cloud.
+
+## Memory management
+
+One of the most common issues encountered with Jenkins is excessive memory usage. In a local development environment, Docker containers are usually set up to use as much RAM as they need as long as they stay within the RAM limit configured in Docker. This limit often corresponds to the total RAM available on the machine. However, when deployed to cloud, the Jenkins container is deployed to its own dedicated server, which limits the available RAM based on the server's configuration. Non-production environments have different RAM configuration tiers, which can be found in our Service Description. Standard environments typically assign 2%nbspGB of RAM to Jenkins. This means that the server running Jenkins has a total of 2%nbspGB of RAM. Considering some overhead for the operating system, Docker, and Jenkins itself, around 1-1.5%nbspGB of memory is usually available for PHP code execution. This shared memory needs to accommodate all console commands run on Jenkins. Therefore, if you set `php memory_limit` to 1%nbspGB and have a job that requires 1%nbspGB at any given time, no other job can run in parallel without risking a memory constraint and potential job failures. The `php memory_limit` does not control the total memory consumption by any PHP process but limits the amount each individual process can take.
+
+We recommend profiling your application to understand how much RAM your Jenkins jobs require. A good way to do this is by utilizing XDebug Profiling in your local development environment. Jobs that may have unexpected memory demands are the `queue:worker:start` commands. These commands are responsible for spawning the `queue:task:start` commands, which consume messages from RabbitMQ. Depending on the complexity and configured chunk size of these messages, these jobs can easily consume multiple GBs of RAM.
+
+## Jenkins executors configuration
+
+Jenkins executors let you orchestrate Jenkins jobs and introduce parallel processing. By default, Jenkins instances have two executors configured, similar to local environment setups. You can adjust the executor count freely and run many console commands in parallel. While this may speed up processing in your application, it increases the importance of understanding the memory utilization profile of your application. For stable job execution, you need to ensure that no parallelized jobs collectively consume more memory than what is available to the Jenkins container. Also, it is common practice to set the number of executors to the count of CPUs available to Jenkins. Standard environments are equipped with two vCPUs, which means that configuring more than the standard two executors risks jobs "fighting" for CPU cycles. This severely limits the performance of all jobs run in parallel and potentially introduces instability to the container itself.
+
+We recommend sticking to the default executor count or the concurrent job limit recommended in the Spryker Service Description for your package. This will help ensure the stability of Jenkins, as configuring more Jenkins Executors is the most common cause of Jenkins instability and crashes.