Hi,

On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 1:21 AM Miroslav Vadkerti <mvadkert@redhat.com> wrote:
Hi,

This is awesome! Looking forward meeting you on Flock to discuss where this is going.


Sure.
 
On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 2:53 PM Fabien Boucher <fboucher@redhat.com> wrote:
Hello,

I'm writing to this list to share about a proof of concept me and my team are setting up. The goal of the POC is to show that Zuul, OpenStack's code gating system [1], can be used to automate RPM-related jobs for Fedora's CI.

We've managed to implement the following workflows:

* Run jobs when PRs are opened/changed on a Pagure instance. Recently Zuul added support for Pagure events so we were able to set up some packaging jobs on Zuul triggered by PRs on src.fedoraproject.org. There are three jobs attached:
** The first job runs a scratch build on Koji and shares artifacts (rpms) with two child jobs.

Is this really build on Koji, or you build it in mock on your nodes?

 
 


The SRPM is built on the job's node in a mock then the built SRPM is passed to koji. See below:
https://fedora.softwarefactory-project.io/logs/5/5/616ac07a47e38483d6bbf6f1fde5624babeab789/check/rawhide-rpm-koji-scratch-build/4c6d960/job-output.txt.gz#_2019-07-01_09_00_26_308520

The ARA report is great to get an overview of the job flow:
https://fedora.softwarefactory-project.io/logs/5/5/616ac07a47e38483d6bbf6f1fde5624babeab789/check/rawhide-rpm-koji-scratch-build/4c6d960/ara-report/

 
** The first child job runs a rpm lint.
** The second child job runs the functional tests included in the package.

Here [2] you can see a PR where those Zuul jobs ran. More details can be found here [3].

* Run jobs when PRs are opened/changed that depend on others PRs. A packager is able to tell Zuul that a PR depends on others PRs by using the "Depends-On:" keyword in the PR's initial message. The artifacts from dependent PRs are available on a PR's job's workspace as well; in [4] the python-mock RPM from the dependent PR is used when building python-redis.

Very cool feature! I am glad to see Zuul support for Pagure.
 

* Run jobs when a package is built on Koji. The idea is to listen to the fedmsg queue, waiting for the topic "buildsys.build.state.change", run the configured Zuul jobs, and finally publish the jobs' results on fedmsg. At the moment we are able to run a linter job each time a package is built, but we don't publish the results on fedmsg. Here is the list of the most recent linter job results [5]. More details can be found here [6].

Zuul-gateway seems to be quite a workaround, is the long term plan to change to support event based triggers "directly" ?


Yes it is a workaround. We have started a discussion about an AMQP trigger with Zuul's maintainers http://lists.zuul-ci.org/pipermail/zuul-discuss/2019-May/000929.html. But no real plan for the moment.

 


We started that POC because we think Zuul offers a lot of useful features [1] like handling PR dependencies that could be of interest to the Fedora project. The POC has shown some working workflows but now we need insights from people who know what the needs of Fedora's CI are. Let us know your thoughts, and we will be happy to extend the POC and onboard anybody wanting to experiment with Zuul in that context.

My Testing Farm team would like to experiment using Zuul for our workflows.


Sure, let's us know how we could help.

 
Does Nodepool support prioritization of different drivers? We would like to offload some of our workloads to AWS in case of spikes, but would like to use it only if non-paid resources (Openstack, Openshift) had been exhausted.



AFAIK not out of the box. But with an external process you might be able to detect your are out of quota on the OpenStack provider and push in the Nodepool providers configuration the setting AWS:max-server value from 0 to something else. Then Nodepool will start to use the AWS provider. When spikes stop you revert the max-server setting to 0 then Nodepool will stop spawning nodes on AWS.  

 
How is the driver selected for a job? Our testing jobs describe an environment which we would like the CI system to translate to a specific driver, according to an predefined priority.


A job definition in Zuul needs to specify a nodeset. A nodeset is a collection of nodes for the job's Ansible inventory. Each node must match a Nodepool node's label. In other words in Nodepool you define the nodes details (provider type (openstack/aws/...), base image, VM flavor) and set labels to nodes. In Zuul, via a nodeset, you define the available nodes (using the Nodepool labels) for the job's inventory. For instance you could have the same label accross multiple providers. However there is not any priority system in that mechanics. https://zuul-ci.org/docs/zuul/user/config.html#nodeset

 

How hard would it be to support non-Ansible based jobs please?



Difficult to respond w/o more details, Zuul only understand a pre-defined job format https://zuul-ci.org/docs/zuul/user/config.html#job so a migration tool would need to be written.

 


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