Hi Nico, I think this is a great idea! I won't be able to help with setting this up (at least not at the moment), but I would be very much interested in a container that allows from-source build+install. I'm thinking here also along the lines of using CPU specific compilers, for example, Intel compilers for users with a license. Doing something like this is on my list for the farther future, because there seems to be an increasing value in being able to apply a patch before bug fix releases are made. Unfortunately low on the list of my current tasks. Just wanted to let you know that there is interest from at least 1 ceph user. Best regards, ================= Frank Schilder AIT Risø Campus Bygning 109, rum S14 ________________________________________ From: Nico Schottelius <nico.schottelius@xxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: 11 August 2022 11:33:36 To: David Galloway Cc: Zhongzhou Cai; Oleksiy Stashok; ceph-users@xxxxxxx Subject: Building ceph packages in containers? [was: Ceph debian/ubuntu packages build] Hello dear cephers, we have been talking quite a bit on this list about cephadm and the advantages and disadvantages of container based deployments. Putting this in context with builds, would it be an option to build ceph packages *in containers*? The advantage of that would be having tested build environments and an easy way to check if ceph version X still easily compiles on distro A version B. Here at ungleich we have quite some extensive kubernetes clusters deployed and we could offer compute resources and storage for ceph packages. This could potentially solve the issue of being able to have new packages for "old" operating systems, couldn't it? As a technical and organisation sketch, what I'd imagine is something on the line of: - Somebody who knows $OS $OSVERSION well creates and maintains a build image that takes as a parameter (URL, file, etc.) which ceph version to build - This image can be used inside a k8s cluster, potentially in combination with something like argo workflows [0] - Output of it can then be stored in a local ceph cluster (!) and made available via web for downloading [1] This could imho reduce the workload of the main ceph team a bit and still provide packages to the community for older operating systems. I'd be willing to take the responsibility for the k8s/build infra, if there are other volunteers on the list who can commit to creating & maintaining a build image, this could benefit both parties. What do you think? Anyone interested in going down this road of providing package builds? Best regards, Nico [0] https://argoproj.github.io/argo-workflows/ [1] Pratically speaking any nginx + PVC container will suffice -- Sustainable and modern Infrastructures by ungleich.ch _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@xxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-leave@xxxxxxx _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@xxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-leave@xxxxxxx
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