[Pulp-dev] CI/CD meeting minutes

[Matthias Dellweg]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 4:42 PM Brian Bouterse <bmbouter at redhat.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 10:34 AM Fabricio Aguiar <faguiard at redhat.com>
> wrote:
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>> ## March 31, 2021
>>
>> * Github Actions
>>     * good overall
>>         * faster and more reliable so far than Travis
>>         * easier to debug with tmate action
>>     * downsides
>>         * virtualization
>>         * not possible to re-run individual jobs
>>             * https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/432
>>         * people need write permission to re-run CI
>>             * https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/841
>>             * workaround: `git commit --amend`, no changes, force push
>> * Release automation https://pulp.plan.io/issues/8093
>>     * Availability
>>         * Mike after operator?
>>         * David has ~1 FTE
>>         * Fabricio? Not sure. Maybe 0.5 FTE.
>>         * Dkliban?
>>     * First goal? https://pulp.plan.io/issues/7868
>>         * [david] to write up design
>> * Regular CI/CD meeting?
>>     * Every other Wednesday 9:30-9:55am (15:30 EST)
>>     * [david] to schedule
>> * Convert CI/CD code to ansible playbook?
>>     * Benefits: idempotence, easier to run locally
>>     * *Big* rewrite
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> I'm a little worried about this even besides its effort. One of my worries
> if we switch to Ansible is that not everyone knows it. If folks have to
> learn a new technology that's another barrier to usage. I've seen this
> happen with the installer already to some extent.
>

Def valid concern. OTOH this was (and it is missing from the benefits) also
driven by the idea that our current CI is understood only by a handful of
people. And that would vastly improve if you could run that locally and see
where it breaks.


>> https://hackmd.io/@pulp/cicd
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Fabricio Aguiar
>> Software Engineer, Pulp Project
>> Red Hat Brazil - Latam <https://www.redhat.com/>
>> +55 22 999000595
>>
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