[Ci-users] [CentOS-devel] Changes on CentOS CI and next steps

Tue Jul 26 10:17:33 UTC 2022
Fabian Arrotin <arrfab at centos.org>

On 26/07/2022 11:12, Niels de Vos wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 10:18:54AM +0200, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
>> On 11/07/2022 18:52, Niels de Vos wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 08:49:34AM -0300, Camila Granella wrote:
>>>> *TL;DR: CentOS CI is going hardwareless and if you wish your project
>>>> remains using it, we need your opt-in by August 2022.
>>>
>>> The Ceph-CSI project is a very happy user of the current CI
>>> infrastructure, and we definitely wish to remain using it. We run a set
>>> of jobs on a mix of bare-metal systems provided by Duffy and some
>>> OpenShift native (containerized).
>>>
>>> With recent minikube versions we might be able to run inside a VM,
>>> however we do require setting up a (minimal) Ceph cluster per job. The
>>> VMs we run on bare-metal get extra disks for the backing storage. If
>>> that is an option for the VMs we obtain through Duffy, we should be able
>>> to adapt our jobs.
>>>
>>> Many thanks!
>>> Niels
>>>
>>
>> The EC2 VMs we'll provision will not get any extra disk[s] (not planned so
>> far but we might reconsider and adapt as it should be easy).
>> The other option is to ask for a bare-metal node to Duffy and you just
>> continue to provision yourself VMs on top as you are doing right now.
>> What do you think should match your needs ?
> 
> A bare-metal node is the easiest for us. We might be able to run the
> tests on a VM, but that usually is way less stable and requires more
> tuning and correction of the CI jobs as updates cause (temporary)
> breakage. A VM needs to have sufficient CPU, RAM and storage to that we
> can create block-devices and run Ceph on top of that (in containers?).
> 
> Thanks,
> Niels
> 

So you can still ask for bare-metal (select the correct pool in new 
duffy api) and so nothing should change for you.


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Fabian Arrotin
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