[Pulp-dev] CI/CD meeting minutes

[Brian Bouterse]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 10:50 AM Matthias Dellweg <mdellweg at redhat.com>
wrote:

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> 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
>>>
>> 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.
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> 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.
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That's fair. When I think about why our CI isn't well understood (to me)
it's because of a lack of working with it versus a lack of understanding
the technology that builds it. I'd be more concerned about the latter.
Running locally would be nice tho.

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>>> 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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