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Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] GitLab Gating CI: initial set of jobs, documentation
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Gerd Hoffmann |
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Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] GitLab Gating CI: initial set of jobs, documentation and scripts |
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Fri, 4 Sep 2020 11:53:26 +0200 |
Hi,
> > IOW, a RHEL-8 aarch64 host, running docker for ubuntu18.04, fedora30
> > etc.
>
> I've come across so many caveats and corner cases that having the
> lowest common denominator proved to be the smart and sane thing to do.
> For instance, building on the example you gave, running a RHEL 8
> aarch64 host is a NO GO Today because RHEL 8 doesn't ship with docker
> and the gitlab runner needs to be taught to talk to, say, Podman.
podman got support for the docker daemon api (v2.0 I think), so
this should be possible soon, without changing gitlab runner.
Also there is a kubernetes runner so you can run the thing in pretty
much any cluster. k3s.io seems to be the easiest way to boot up a small
kubernetes cluster on pretty much any linux system. Works on aarch64
too. Didn't try (yet) to run the gitlab runner there.
> Finally, it's going to be very important for some organizations to
> run tests outside of container environments. For instance, Red Hat
> needs to run QEMU+KVM tests on bare metal and on VMs, in addition
> to containers.
Also for *BSD testing.
For setting up VM images we should use tests/vm.
> Like I explained before, containers-only won't cut it. So, we need
> tooling that is environment agnostic. So far, ansible playbooks seem
> to be a reasonable solution. But duplicating information bothers me
> as much as it seems to bother you, so we need to engage in common
> tooling that is capable of generating those container environments,
> but not be limited to it. One example of a tool that seems to be
> a good candidate is "Libvirt's" lcitool.
What is wrong with the docker files we have?
It is a good idea anyway to use the same images for local test builds
and CI. Makes it easier to reproduce CI failures locally.
take care,
Gerd
- Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] GitLab Gating CI: initial set of jobs, documentation and scripts, Cleber Rosa, 2020/09/03
- Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] GitLab Gating CI: initial set of jobs, documentation and scripts, Cleber Rosa, 2020/09/03
- Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] GitLab Gating CI: initial set of jobs, documentation and scripts, Cleber Rosa, 2020/09/03
- Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] GitLab Gating CI: initial set of jobs, documentation and scripts, Cleber Rosa, 2020/09/03
- Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] GitLab Gating CI: initial set of jobs, documentation and scripts, Cleber Rosa, 2020/09/03
- Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] GitLab Gating CI: initial set of jobs, documentation and scripts, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé, 2020/09/04