On Thu, Sep 07, 2017 at 01:46:03PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > On Thu, 2017-09-07 at 11:58 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > > Fedora 26 has been released in the meantime, which means we can > > > get rid of two builders instead of one! Someone will have to > > > prepare the 'libvirt-fedora-26' builder, though, because it > > > doesn't exist at the moment :) > > > > Until someone actually creates the new builders for F26 and > > almost time for F27 now too, I don't think we should really > > be turning off existing builders. > > I posted this in part to raise the issue of the Fedora 26 builder > not being available yet, but I disagree on the fact that we can't > get rid of Fedora 23 and 24 until that's in place. Building on > two unsupported Fedora releases doesn't really buy us anything > except for more load on the already tightly packed CI hosts. I would be ok with killing F23, as that brings us back to the long term load point where we have 2 stable Fedoras tested + rawhide. > > We really badly need someone to write a kickstart file that > > can 100% automate the provisioning of Fedora VMs suitable > > for running our CI. Then we can quickly deploy builers when > > new Fedora comes out and get to point where we're always > > 100% aligned with testing on the 2 current supported releases > > + rawhide. > > I've been working on Ansible playbooks for my development machines > and I've intended from the very beginning to make them generic > enough that I could use them for my own builders too with only > minimal changes. > > Since I'm going to spend time on that regardless, I'm perfectly > fine with coming up with something that can turn a freshly-installed > Fedora guest into a builder suitable for the CentOS CI. > > As for the installation step, I've never used kickstart but I was > thinking of taking advantage of the amazing work the virt-builder > maintainers have been doing in quickly preparing templates after > a new Fedora version has been released. > > How does that sound? Sure, using virt-builder as a starting point is fine too - the key is simply that it be 100% automatable. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
