[Ci-users] Duffy v2: Please send RFEs!

Thu Aug 24 00:28:06 UTC 2017
Brian Stinson <brian at bstinson.com>

On Aug 23 08:46, Nigel Babu wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 8:16 AM, Brian Stinson <brian at bstinson.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Aug 22 16:24, Nigel Babu wrote:
> > > These are things I'd love to see fixed:
> > >
> > > * Request nodes in specific chasis, for instance, if we're trying to test
> > > performance and want a continuous baseline.
> >
> > I'm -0 (but I'm pretty easily convinced :) on this, specifically because
> > we may not have the 'chassis' abstraction to select on if/when the
> > seamicros go away.
> >
> > Your performance differences were in AMD vs. Intel, correct?
> >
> 
> Indeed. If we classify the machines into different types, and we can
> request the same types, that works too. I believe it was also a difference
> of RAM as well.

For the Seamicros, we should be homogenous on RAM now (our less-dense
chassis is now a test system). 

Tracking ticket: https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=13709


> 
> 
> >
> > > * Given that Duffy v2 is going to be open source, is there going to be a
> > > tiny focus on someone who's not CentOS CI being able to deploy it? (I'm
> > > happy to be involved to do this)
> >
> > If you're interested, we certainly won't say no! It would be good to
> > have another installation to keep us 'honest' (so to speak) in making
> > sure we follow good practices.
> >
> 
> There are times when I wished we had a Duffy like API for our machines
> which would create and destroy on request. Except we'd have VMs and not
> physical machines.

Cool, what type of VMs are you looking at? 

For duffy we're targeting libvirt (temporarily), and openstack (longer
term).