[rdo-dev] [ppc64le] Spinning up Triple O container jobs

[Michael Turek]

Hey David,

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On 5/11/18 12:57 PM, David Moreau Simard wrote:
> Michael,
>
> The cloud from which Duffy provides virtual machines is not publicly
> available, this means we cannot leverage it with Nodepool or Zuul.
Fair enough! I guess the alternative is to get Power nodes into the RDO 
cloud? Any other ideas?
>
> We have some tooling to request [1][2] and destroy [3][4] Duffy nodes.
> Do you really need a custom image or would requesting a "vanilla"
> ppc64le node from Duffy be enough ?
Not sure about this. The image used for container builds on x86_64 
(upstream-centos-7) seems to use quite a few elements [0]. I'm not clear 
on why each of them are required, but I would assume a power node would 
need an image built with these elements as well.
>
> [1]: https://github.com/rdo-infra/ci-config/blob/master/jenkins/jobs/scripts/cico-node-get-to-ansible.sh
> [2]: https://github.com/rdo-infra/ci-config/blob/516411b57b378c1bf7374bcf32774e2f5dd1b2fb/jenkins/jobs/weirdo-builders.yml#L1-L6
> [3]: https://github.com/rdo-infra/ci-config/blob/master/jenkins/jobs/scripts/cico-node-done-from-ansible.sh
> [4]: https://github.com/rdo-infra/ci-config/blob/516411b57b378c1bf7374bcf32774e2f5dd1b2fb/jenkins/jobs/weirdo-defaults.yml#L68-L78
>
> David Moreau Simard
> Senior Software Engineer | OpenStack RDO
>
> dmsimard = [irc, github, twitter]
>
>
> On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 12:49 PM, Michael Turek
> <mjturek at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>> Hey all,
>>
>> Last week I threw up a patch to add tripleo container build jobs for ppc64le
>> [0]. I would really appreciate getting some eyes on it. I'm not sure how
>> complete it is, but I do know that we'll need:
>>
>> a) A provider for ppc64le in nodepool [1]
>> b) A ppc64le image in nodepool. [2]
>>
>> There's been some discussion around (a) which led to me being linked to
>> https://wiki.centos.org/QaWiki/CI/Multiarch but I don't think Duffy can work
>> with nodepool. If I'm wrong about this, please let me know.
>>
>> As for (b), we would need a node running DIB on a ppc64le node/guest
>> providing a ppc64le image .
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mike Turek <mjturek on freenode>
>>
>> [0] https://review.rdoproject.org/r/#/c/13606/
>> [1] https://review.rdoproject.org/r/#/c/13606/4/nodepool/nodepool.yaml@134
>> [2] https://review.rdoproject.org/r/#/c/13606/3/nodepool/nodepool.yaml@145
>>
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Thanks,
Mike Turek <mjturek on freenode>

[0] 
https://github.com/rdo-infra/review.rdoproject.org-config/blob/master/nodepool/nodepool.yaml#L15-L27