[Ci-users] Fedora Rawhide images on the EC2 instances

Thu Jun 23 12:59:11 UTC 2022
Camila Granella <cgranell at redhat.com>

>
> Hi,
> Yeah, I guess it would be good time to talk about, so we do not overlap
> or know what is exactly overlap. The thing is CentOS testing is just a part
> of things we do.
> Should I setup some call?


That would be great Miroslav. If you could add me to it as well, in
addition to Fabian and Mark, I'd appreciate it.

On Thu, Jun 23, 2022 at 8:00 AM Miroslav Vadkerti <mvadkert at redhat.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 23, 2022 at 9:09 AM Fabian Arrotin <arrfab at centos.org> wrote:
>
>> On 22/06/2022 18:45, Miroslav Vadkerti wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > On Wed, Jun 22, 2022 at 5:39 PM František Šumšal <frantisek at sumsal.cz
>> > <mailto:frantisek at sumsal.cz>> wrote:
>> >
>> >     Hello!
>> >
>> >     After reading & discussing the recent news regarding the move to
>> >     AWS, I wonder if it would be possible to provide Fedora Rawhide
>> >     images along with the C8S and C9S ones (and maybe active stable
>> >     Fedora releases as well).
>> >
>> >
>> > Fedora Rawhide AWS images are available on Fedora's AWS account, that
>> we
>> > also use to test CentOS Stream:
>> >
>> > ❯ aws ec2 describe-images --filter
>> > Name=name,Values="Fedora-Cloud-Base-Rawhide*" | jq -r '.Images | .[] |
>> > .Name' | sort | tail -4
>> > Fedora-Cloud-Base-Rawhide-20220621.n.3.aarch64-hvm-us-east-2-gp2-0
>> > Fedora-Cloud-Base-Rawhide-20220621.n.3.aarch64-hvm-us-east-2-standard-0
>> > Fedora-Cloud-Base-Rawhide-20220621.n.3.x86_64-hvm-us-east-2-gp2-0
>> > Fedora-Cloud-Base-Rawhide-20220621.n.3.x86_64-hvm-us-east-2-standard-0
>> >
>> > This is what we use in Testing Farm <https://docs.testing-farm.io/>.
>>
>> Great, so we now know that they exist and we can investigate options to
>> start deploying these ....
>>
>> >
>> >
>> >     A bit of background: In the systemd project we have several jobs
>> >     with utilize Vagrant to run an Arch Linux VMs, in which we run tests
>> >     alongside the C8S/C9S jobs, to cover issues with the latest-ish
>> >     kernel and other software, and to also hunt down security issues
>> >     with the latest versions of ASan and UBSan. However, all this is
>> >     held together by a lot of duct tape and sheer will power, and in the
>> >     end it requires an EC2 Metal instance to run, due to the additional
>> >     level of virtualization.
>> >
>> >     If we were able to provision Rawhide instances directly (which
>> >     should help us achieve the same goal as the Arch Linux VMs we
>> >     currently use), that could, in theory, allow us to drop the
>> >     requirement for Metal instances completely.
>> >
>> >
>> > Do you need some direct access to AWS? We provide testing on AWS
>> > instances as a service.
>>
>> Well .. you know that it's exactly what Duffy and newer CI infra would
>> be doing , so overlapping solutions .. What I find amusing is that we
>> now seem to have two solutions providing same thing, using the *same*
>> AWS sponsored account, and with common projects ...
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> Yeah, I guess it would be good time to talk about, so we do not overlap
> or know what is exactly overlap. The thing is CentOS testing is just a part
> of things we do.
>
> Should I setup some call?
>
> Best regards,
> /M
>
>
>
>>
>>
>>
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