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

[George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/14/2018 01:28 PM, Doug Goldstein wrote:
> On 3/14/18 4:45 AM, George Dunlap wrote:
>> 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
>>
> 
> Ha. Thank you. So in the same thread I'll move the helper script that
> the CI will use into "automation/scripts"? Currently we have
> "scripts/travis-build" but there are going to be some more (specifically
> for ARM)

Yes, we should try to group all the "hooks for external automated tools"
together somehow.

FWIW, although I still prefer "automation", upon reflection "extras" is
a nice color too. :-)

Thanks again for doing this.

 -George

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