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

Wed Sep 21 06:47:27 UTC 2022
Anoop C S <anoopcs at disr.it>

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.


Regards,
Anoop C S.