[Ci-users] artifacts from inside and outside the ci infra

Tue Jan 5 16:16:48 UTC 2016
John Trowbridge <trown at redhat.com>


On 01/05/2016 10:50 AM, Attila Darazs wrote:
> On 11/24/2015 02:28 PM, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
>> On 24/11/15 13:02, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>>> hi,
>>
>>> what was the final decision around how best to export artifacts so
>>> they are visible on the same url as internally inside of ci ?
>>
>>> regards,
>>
>>
>> Let me recap what we discussed the other day : Actually artifacts are
>> available from outside through the following URL :
>> https://ci.centos.org/artifacts/
>> Someone tried to (for a job) also not store but first retrieve
>> previously saved artifacts pushed to the artifact node (see
>> https://wiki.centos.org/QaWiki/CI/GettingStarted#head-a46ee49e8818ef9b50225c4e9d429f7a079758d2)
>>
>> Problem is that from an inside PoV, ci.centos.org is a A record
>> pointing directly to the jenkins node, while from an external PoV,
>> it's pointing to an nginx reverse proxy ( / being redirected to
>> jenkins, while /artifacts is itself a proxy_pass to the internal
>> artifacts node)
>>
>> We can't just simply redirect now the internal A record to the nginx
>> reverse proxy , as Jenkins slave java processes are accessing
>> ci.centos.org internally through jnlp too , on some specific/fixed
>> ports, so internal ci.centos.org A record needs to still be pointing
>> to jenkins node.
>>
>> The proposed solution is then to setup nginx on the jenkins node
>> itself, redirecting / to itself (on the jenkins port, and not through
>> iptables redirect rules), while /artifacts would then be redirected to
>> the internal artifacts node, so that would mean that all URLs would be
>> accessible internally and externally.
>>
>> If that sounds good for everybody, we can create a "card" on the CI
>> board and implement that during next maintenance window.
> 
> Is there any update on this?
> 
> I still get 404 on
> http://ci.centos.org/artifacts/rdo/images/liberty/delorean/stable/undercloud.qcow2
> vs.
> http://artifacts.ci.centos.org/artifacts/rdo/images/liberty/delorean/stable/undercloud.qcow2
> from the our rdo-ci slave.
> 
> We would need to have the same URLs in our jobs, otherwise people will
> have no success trying to reproduce them outside of the CentOS CI
> environment.

I do not think it is such a big deal to have the default url be the one
that works outside of CI, and just have CI override the default. This is
what I have been doing for tripleo-quickstart.

> 
> Attila
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