Cleber Rosa <cr...@redhat.com> writes:
> To run basic jobs on custom runners, the environment needs to be
> properly set up. The most common requirement is having the right
> packages installed.
>
> The playbook introduced here covers the QEMU's project s390x and
> aarch64 machines. At the time this is being proposed, those machines
> have already had this playbook applied to them.
>
> Signed-off-by: Cleber Rosa <cr...@redhat.com>
> ---
> docs/devel/ci.rst | 30 ++++++++
> scripts/ci/setup/build-environment.yml | 98 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> scripts/ci/setup/inventory.template | 1 +
> 3 files changed, 129 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 scripts/ci/setup/build-environment.yml
> create mode 100644 scripts/ci/setup/inventory.template
>
> diff --git a/docs/devel/ci.rst b/docs/devel/ci.rst
> index 585b7bf4b8..35c6b5e269 100644
> --- a/docs/devel/ci.rst
> +++ b/docs/devel/ci.rst
> @@ -26,3 +26,33 @@ gitlab-runner, is called a "custom runner".
> The GitLab CI jobs definition for the custom runners are located under::
>
> .gitlab-ci.d/custom-runners.yml
> +
> +Machine Setup Howto
> +-------------------
> +
> +For all Linux based systems, the setup can be mostly automated by the
> +execution of two Ansible playbooks. Create an ``inventory`` file
> +under ``scripts/ci/setup``, such as this::
> +
> + fully.qualified.domain
> + other.machine.hostname
> +
> +You may need to set some variables in the inventory file itself. One
> +very common need is to tell Ansible to use a Python 3 interpreter on
> +those hosts. This would look like::
> +
> + fully.qualified.domain ansible_python_interpreter=/usr/bin/python3
> + other.machine.hostname ansible_python_interpreter=/usr/bin/python3
> +
> +Build environment
> +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> +
> +The ``scripts/ci/setup/build-environment.yml`` Ansible playbook will
> +set up machines with the environment needed to perform builds and run
> +QEMU tests. It covers a number of different Linux distributions and
> +FreeBSD.
> +
> +To run the playbook, execute::
> +
> + cd scripts/ci/setup
> + ansible-playbook -i inventory build-environment.yml
I tried this to re-update aarch64.ci.qemu.org and another ubuntu box I
have up and running as a VM and I got a failure when checking facts:
14:26:26 [alex@zen:~/l/q/s/c/setup] review/custom-runners-v6|✚1…(+1/-1) +
ansible-playbook -i inventory build-environment.yml
PLAY [Installation of basic packages to build QEMU]
*************************************************************************************************************************
TASK [Gathering Facts]
******************************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [aarch64.ci.qemu.org]
ok: [hackbox-ubuntu-2004]
TASK [Update apt cache]
*****************************************************************************************************************************************************
fatal: [aarch64.ci.qemu.org]: FAILED! => {"msg": "The conditional check
'ansible_facts['distribution'] == 'Ubuntu'' failed. The error was: error while
evaluating conditional (ansible_facts['distribution'] == 'Ubuntu'): 'dict
object' has no attribute 'distribution'\n\nThe error appears to have been in
'/home/alex/lsrc/qemu.git/scripts/ci/setup/build-environment.yml': line 5,
column 7, but may\nbe elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax
problem.\n\nThe offending line appears to be:\n\n tasks:\n - name: Update
apt cache\n ^ here\n"}
fatal: [hackbox-ubuntu-2004]: FAILED! => {"msg": "The conditional check
'ansible_facts['distribution'] == 'Ubuntu'' failed. The error was: error while
evaluating conditional (ansible_facts['distribution'] == 'Ubuntu'): 'dict
object' has no attribute 'distribution'\n\nThe error appears to have been in
'/home/alex/lsrc/qemu.git/scripts/ci/setup/build-environment.yml': line 5,
column 7, but may\nbe elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax
problem.\n\nThe offending line appears to be:\n\n tasks:\n - name: Update
apt cache\n ^ here\n"}
to retry, use: --limit
@/home/alex/lsrc/qemu.git/scripts/ci/setup/build-environment.retry
PLAY RECAP
******************************************************************************************************************************************************************
aarch64.ci.qemu.org : ok=1 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=1
hackbox-ubuntu-2004 : ok=1 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=1
--
Alex Bennée
