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Re: Building cloud images using Debian infrastructure



On 08/12/2018 02:51 AM, Luca Filipozzi wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 03:06:53PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
>> Right now this layers are:
>> - gitlab: repository store, job scheduler
>> - gitlab-runner: job executor
>> - docker-machine: VM handling with docker and directly supported by
>>   gitlab-runner
>> - docker: runtime environment within transient VM
>> - gitlab ci script: just a script
>> - fai class wrapper
>> - fai
> 
> casulana is also used to build the CD images. Currently, the scripts
> that build the CD images execute a number of 'build jobs' in parallel,
> effectively monopoloizing the machine. One of the things we could/should
> do is turn those 'build jobs' things that can be executed by a scheduler
> such as sge or gitlab-runner. Can we inject non-gitlab-originating jobs
> into gitlab's scheduler?
> 
> The other thing we could do is set up system-wide semaphor that both
> cd-build and gitlab-runner use, but i prefer the idea of enqueuing jobs
> into SGE (or equivalent)

What is SGE? A google non-free version of beanstalk?

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)


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