[Ci-users] Disabling dnf execution in background on an EC2 bare metal node

Fri Nov 18 10:08:01 UTC 2022
Anoop C S <anoopcs at disr.it>

On Wed, 2022-09-21 at 12:17 +0530, Anoop C S wrote:
> On Tue, 2022-09-13 at 11:22 +0200, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
> > On 13/09/2022 10:07, Anoop C S wrote:
> > > Therefore I put forward a suggestion to disable `dnf update` as
> > > part of
> > > cloud-init service such that it does not interfere with other DNF
> > > operations done after the node is reserved by a tenant.
> > > 
> > > Please feel free to correct me in any of the details mentioned
> > > above
> > > and let me know your thoughts.
> > 
> > (Follow-up on the thread started on #centos-ci irc channel)
> > 
> > I don't mind disabling completely that "dnf update" step from our
> > ec2
> > config and so each project/tenant would start with such operation
> > in 
> > their ci/test workflow/pipeline
> > 
> > Waiting for feedback from other tenants/projects and if so, it's
> > just
> > a git commit && git push operation at centos infra side and it will
> > be reflected for newly deployed ec2 nodes (for all, so not only
> > bare-
> > metal ones)
> 
> With updated EC2 cloud image available(and deployed) for CentOS
> Stream
> 8 where do we stand w.r.t this request? As far as our project is
> considered we haven't seen any mentioned DNF/RPM issues in our jobs
> since the update to recent EC2 cloud image for CentOS Stream 8 on
> metal
> instances.

Now after 2 months we again started noticing these DNF errors again as
more and more updates comes in for CentOS Stream 8. Shall we reconsider
disabling the `dnf update` step?


Thanks,
Anoop C S.