Re: Building cloud images using Debian infrastructure
On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 05:07:55PM +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> 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?
Son of Grid Engine, the open-source fork? of Sun Grid Engine.
Packaged in Debian as 'gridengine-*'
A job scheduler / resource manager. More suited for cluster but still
useful for a large machine like casulana.
--
Luca Filipozzi
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