On Montag, 7. Juli 2025 13:49:14 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit Ben Cooksley wrote: > Hi all,
great news, thanks a lot to you and anyone else working on this! <snip> > As an additional benefit, the system will require significantly less work > to maintain. Currently each build node, along with the FreeBSD and Windows > VM thereon, have to be maintained by hand and disk space allocated between > them in a fixed fashion. This means that any cleanup from stale disk > images, over-filled caches, etc. has to be done 3 times on each build node > (being the Linux host as well as the FreeBSD and Windows guest VMs). > Currently provisioning new nodes is significantly labour intensive as well > (see > https://invent.kde.org/sysadmin/ci-utilities/-/blob/master/gitlab-templates/ > README.md for the instructions). > > This is essentially completely eliminated with the transition to VM based > CI, with the majority of the deployment now being possible using Ansible > with the only manual step being the registration with Gitlab - which is a > fairly quick process taking less than 20 minutes per node. Maintenance is > significantly reduced as each node only needs one set of cleanup - not > three. > > Should there be any questions on the above please let me know. Are the base VM images built using Ansible or something and thus available to interested developers too as a means to get quickly into a dev setup? Especially for Windows that would be great to have, but it would also be cool if one could download a VM image, start it, maybe install some editor of choice, and start hacking right away. Cheers -- Milian Wolff m...@milianw.de http://milianw.de
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