On 12/07/2011 02:46 PM, Denis Arnaud wrote: > Hello, > > RedHat-hosted Koji servers offer an invaluable service by allowing all > of us, package maintainers, to build all of "our" Fedora packages. I > guess that that infrastructure is not cost-less for RedHat and and the > quality of service is great (for instance, the wait in the queues, > before Koji actually builds the packages submitted via the > command-line client, is not so long). > > As Fedora is pretty advanced in the cloud/virtualisation arena, we > could imagine a "Koji Cloud", hosted on VMs offered by volunteers. For > instance, I could contribute a few VMs in Europe (hosted on > http://www.ovh.co.uk/). Our Cloud SIG > (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Cloud_SIG) and/or Virt ML > (https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/virt and > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Getting_started_with_virtualization)/RedHat > ET (http://et.redhat.com/) colleagues could help designing and > implementing the following infrastructure: > * VM template/images, ready to be started on the volunteer's servers > everywhere in the world, 24x7. > - SSH public keys of Koji administrators would be part of the > images, so that they can have an easy access to them, just in case. > - Those VMs would update themselves automatically. > - The containers could be standardised as well. For instance, > ProxMox/OpenVZ or Fedora/CentOS with libvirt. > * A directory (LDAP, or something less centralised, like the address > book of Skype, for instance), keeping track of all those VMs: > - with the corresponding last known status; > - with the VM configurations (Fedora/CentOS release, CPU, memory, > disk usage, etc); > - with some rating corresponding to their quality of service > (build duration, reliability of the VM, MTBF, etc). > * A dispatcher system: > - which would route the Koji build requests to available VMs; > - collect the outcome of the builds (logs, RPM packages, > statistics, QoS, etc) and store them in the current ("centralised") > Koji infrastructure. > > As I am not a specialist of all those technologies, I may have > forgotten a lot of things, but you get the idea. > Doesn't it sound great? Does it sound realisable? Am I crazy to dream > to such an infrastructure? I'm currently writing a proposal of similar architecture for testing purposes. Looks like the core -- community provided virtual machines is the common component for all this stuff so if designed correctly it can be shared for testing/koji/whatever. I will let you know when the proposal is done so we can discuss the details. Regards, -- Richard Marko -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
