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

Thu Jun 23 10:59:37 UTC 2022
Miroslav Vadkerti <mvadkert at redhat.com>

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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