[Ci-users] Reminder : CentOS 7 and 8s EOL soon (impact on CI workflow)

Fri Mar 29 15:14:22 UTC 2024
Fabian Arrotin <arrfab at centos.org>

Hi CI tenants !

Just a reminder that (as you know it) CentOS Stream 8 will go EOL in May 
and then CentOS Linux 7 itself going EOL in June (so very soon)

That would mean that we'll just remove the various pools that provide 
CentOS 8s and 7 for your tests.

Reason is that mirror network itself will be unavailable and so all 
tests would fail anyway.

Happy to discuss here but we'll send reminders about when we'll just 
remove the various pools in Duffy.

I also need to find an option for something else that you *still* all 
use when using Jenkins on openshift cluster : our cico-workspace image 
(https://quay.io/repository/centosci/cico-workspace)
That one is "problematic" as it's based on upstream openshift jenkins 
agent 
(https://github.com/openshift/jenkins/tree/master?tab=readme-ov-file#hosted-images) 

These ones are based on UBI8 and it seems that there is (still) no 
momentum to move to UBI9 (don't have direct contact with them though)
While our current images were based from the upstream ones, we could 
just "convert" these to 8s 
(https://github.com/centosci/images/blob/master/cico-workspace/Dockerfile#L1 
and 
https://github.com/centosci/images/blob/master/cico-workspace/Dockerfile#L8)

We need to find a solution but was wondering if just using vault 
(archived mirror content) would be a good solution or not : tempted 
myself to answer "no" as that would mean running container that will 
*never* be updated for security reasons (CentOS Stream 8 going EOL in May)

Opinions, thoughts ?

-- 
Fabian Arrotin
The CentOS Project | https://www.centos.org
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