On 24/08/2022 00:48, František Šumšal wrote: > Hey! > > On 8/23/22 16:41, Camila Granella wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Earlier today the infra team attempted to bump the amount of metal >> machines >> available for provisioning on Duffy. >> However, the AWS API returned that currently there is no capacity to >> provision >> metal machines in the Availability Zone we are currently in (us-east-1a). >> For this reason, we will need to default to the use of EC2. >> >> Let us know if you need anything from our end to support you adapting >> your >> workflows to it. > > After thinking about this a bit more, I'd have one (quite naïve idea) - > would it be possible to get in touch with the "other side" (i.e. people > responsible for AWS) and ask them about a possibility of enabling nested > virt for the CentOS CI pool? I have no idea about what's the reason > behind no-nested virt anywhere (I suspect it's due to security-related > reasons) and if it's even possible to enable in in the current EC2 > infra, but having it enabled would, in the end, benefit all involved > parties (especially given the infra is apparently sponsored by > AWS/Amazon). As voiced by me several project currently utilizing CentOS > CI - there are certain workflows which can't be run on the current EC2 > machines, and as much as I'd like to use them (to avoid wasting > resources unnecessarily), I simply can't. > > Again, this is just my late-night spitballing in hopes to find some > suitable middle-ground, so if it doesn't make sense, please let me know. > Well, if AWS, world-wide, never enabled it for all their paying customers, I doubt they'd do it for a *whole* region just for a sponsored account .. ;-) So basically I guess it's safe to answer that it's not possible (I guess that's also the explanation about why they still let you request a metal node, but in limited quantity vs the "classic" and default EC2 instances) -- Fabian Arrotin The CentOS Project | https://www.centos.org gpg key: 17F3B7A1 | twitter: @arrfab -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: OpenPGP_0xA25DBAFB17F3B7A1.asc Type: application/pgp-keys Size: 12767 bytes Desc: OpenPGP public key URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/ci-users/attachments/20220824/b67fba6a/attachment-0003.bin> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: OpenPGP_signature Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 840 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/ci-users/attachments/20220824/b67fba6a/attachment-0003.sig>