Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/6] Using GitLab CI for build testing

[George Dunlap <dunlapg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 3:31 AM, Doug Goldstein <cardoe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Really early work on switching over to using GitLab CI over
> Travis CI. GitLab is a competitor to GitHub with some advantages
> such as an integrated CI system with a lot more flexibility
> and control. It additionally is fully open sourced unlike GitHub
> and Travis CI. We can even run an instance if that is preferred
> over using the hosted instance.
>
> This change uses GitLab CI's ability to use Docker based runners
> for running tests. With GitHub we also use a Docker based runner
> but we are limited to one Docker container that is then morphed
> a number of different ways. With this approach we can specify
> different Docker containers for every run (or use the same). By
> using different Docker containers we can build environments that
> match systems where Xen can and should build. Using this
> approach we should be able to cutdown on the number of surpise
> build failures encountered by users.
>
> An example run can be seen here:
> https://gitlab.com/cardoe/xen/pipelines/18789907
>
> If there is interest in this I will move it over to the "xen-project"
> name space in the next version.
>
> Doug Goldstein (6):
>   ci: add Dockerfile for CentOS 7.2
>   ci: add Dockerfile for Ubuntu 14.04
>   ci: add Dockerfile for Ubuntu 16.04
>   ci: add Dockerfile for Debian jessie
>   ci: add cfg to use GitLab CI to build
>   ci: add a README about the containers
>
>  .gitlab-ci.yml                          | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  extras/testing/README.md                | 29 ++++++++++++++++++-
>  extras/testing/centos/CentOS-7.2.repo   | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  extras/testing/centos/Dockerfile.7.2    | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  extras/testing/debian/Dockerfile.jessie | 21 +++++++++++++-
>  extras/testing/ubuntu/Dockerfile.trusty | 21 +++++++++++++-
>  extras/testing/ubuntu/Dockerfile.xenial | 21 +++++++++++++-

"extras" is a bit generic.  What about something like "automation/build"?

(You knew this bike shed wasn't going to get in without *some*
discussion of the color!)

-George

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