On Tue, Jul 8, 2025 at 4:18 AM Milian Wolff <m...@milianw.de> wrote:
> 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! > Thanks, it has been quite the adventure over the past couple of months getting everything together. > > <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. > The VM images themselves are built using some rather simplistic scripting at invent.kde.org/sysadmin/ci-images. Once built they're published to storage.kde.org/vm-images/ - so yes you could definitely just download a CI VM image and start hacking right away. There is tooling in sysadmin/ci-images (vm-runner folder) which automates the process of downloading an image, setting up the VM, etc and makes running a new one as easy as: vm-runner run --cpu 4 --ram 4G --disk 100G --image storage.kde.org/vm-images/alpine-qt68 --mount ~/shared/ --ssh-keys ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub mynewvm (using our Alpine image as an example, but you could use the SUSE or FreeBSD images as well) > Cheers > > -- > Milian Wolff > m...@milianw.de > http://milianw.de Thanks, Ben
